Sonny O’Brien
“Your creations are what I imagine the inside of a black hole looks like: A mishmash of bizarre but cool things for my eyes and ears.”
Sonny is an interdisciplinary artist mixing forms into a gooey, iridescent mess of collage. Fusing photographic sampling, digital design and an anachronistic mingling of cultural references, there’s an order in his chaos that feels both reckless and elegant. Colour is an obvious inspiration, both the subversion of abrasive combinations and its absence altogether, in work that hopscotches between being eye popping lurid and classically monochrome.
He has a fascination with experimenting in digital and analog mediums, spawning a growing portfolio of music, animations, photography, collage, film and video and generative art.
As a sound designer and musician, he received the QUT Vice Chancellor’s Scholarship in 2012 for his outstanding portfolio