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Daniel P. O'Neill is a museum artist, an archaeological
reconstruction/interpretation specialist, and one of Europe's leading museum modelmakers. His work can be seen in many European
institutions, and private collections worldwide.
A graduate from Medway College of Design (now University
for the Creative Arts) in England, Daniel O'Neill has been a designer, artist and modelmaker, for 20 years ,with more
than half that time in the museum design field. Originally based in London and Dublin, he worked for several years as
an industrial designer for the Irish government's design advisory service to industry. After a two year self imposed gap spent
training as a commercial pilot in the US and elsewhere, he returned to set up his own design practice specialising
in exhibit design and archaeological reconstruction work for heritage centres and regional museums established under European
Union initiatives. Much
of O'Neill's current work is for maritime collectors,and museums, and as he still flies regularly, his aviation experience allows his artwork to demonstrate
remarkable realism in anything that needs to generate a naturalistic impression. Dan has lived in the US for
the last ten years and during that time his marine models and sculptures have been sold at Christies fine art auctions in
New York and can be found in many US private and corporate collections.
He has undertaken design/model work for
television and film companies, museum and exhibition design firms and architectural practices large and small. His clients
include the BBC, Ove Arup, Event Communications (Europe's largest museum design group)The Royal College of Art and the British
Museum. He is also one of the few artists able to list Saddam Hussein as a client (though obviously not currently!!) A full
list of clients is available on request.
O'Neill's techniques are the result of art school training and years of
experience. This generates a lifelike quality sadly missing in many 'modern' models and sculptures that suffer from a
sterile, over technical approach. This is most apparent in his shipwreck models. The movement of water is extremely well conveyed
through the use of sculpted porcelain clay.
The pictures on these pages are a very small proportion
of his work.
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