Bill Osmond

Bill Osmond (born 12 February 1972) is an Irish-born contemporary conceptual artist and painter. He is best known for his conceptual works, especially those dedicated to public signs, urban interventions and street painting.
Osmond was born in Dublin, but spent most of his childhood in New York.
For eight years he attended an Art school which was run by Peter Romerick, followed by the Fine Art NY School.

In late eighties Osmond studied art at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris, and later on he began a painting course at Yale University, where the teaching was strongly influenced by the multi-disciplinary experimentation and minimalist theories on colour and form of Rene Hammer, a former head of department.
Osmond has lived and worked in London since 1995, From his early box-like constructions of the late 1980s he moved increasingly to the use of ordinary household objects. In the late 1990s he began to make line drawings of ordinary objects, creating over the years an ever-expanding vocabulary of images which form the foundation of his work to this day. During the 2000s the focus of his work shifted decisively to public billboards, and to increasingly complex installations of wall paintings.
Since 2012, Osmond has been working on steel forms that describe everyday objects and appear like line drawings in the air. The first series was shown in the gardens of Heldon House in Derbyshire, in 2018, where the sculptures were sunk into the soil of the grounds.
In 2019, his exhibition “Amour” at the Redded Galleries brought together works from 1990 to 2018, including representations of once familiar yet obsolete technology; laptops, games consoles, black-and-white televisions and incandescent lightbulbs that highlighted the increasing transience of technological innovation.