Eamon O'Kane: Overlook: Selected lens-based works 2000-2004
Texts by Claire Doherty and Padraig Timoney
Overlook is a focused publication documenting a formative period in Eamon O’Kane’s artistic practice, bringing together selected lens-based works produced between 2000 and 2004. The book traces O’Kane’s sustained investigation of landscape, architecture, and the constructed environments of art, foregrounding the camera as both an analytical tool and a poetic medium.
The works reproduced explore sites of display, production, and observation—studios, exhibition architectures, peripheral landscapes, and overlooked or transitional spaces. Through a measured and attentive visual language, O’Kane examines how meaning is shaped by framing, vantage point, and institutional context, questioning the neutrality of the image and the conditions under which art is seen, situated, and remembered.
Accompanying the visual material are critical texts by Claire Doherty and Padraig Timoney, which situate O’Kane’s lens-based practice within broader discourses on site, spectatorship, and contemporary artistic production. Doherty’s contribution reflects on the spatial and curatorial implications of O’Kane’s work, while Timoney offers a perspective grounded in artistic practice, addressing questions of authorship, materiality, and the relationship between making, viewing, and context.
Overlook functions both as a document of a specific moment in O’Kane’s career and as an early articulation of concerns that continue to resonate throughout his wider practice, offering readers insight into the conceptual and visual foundations of his ongoing engagement with place, structure, and the politics of representation.