Mercurochromes Art Exhibition by Mayo artist Michael O'Boyle
Date: 4 October 2025 - 1 November 2025
Venue: Garden of Reflection Gallery, 16 Bishop Street, Derry, Derry, BT48 6PW
Welcome to the current art exhibit at UV Arts Centre, located at the Garden of Reflection Gallery in Derry. The current show is by Mayo artist Michael O'Boyle, whose work coerces the visual language of popular science through a distilled painterly and colourist intervention that creates artificial forms that take their lead from the microscopic world. He uses microscopy and Scientific illustrations as a primary source for his work with the aim to make the non visible that surrounds us visible, formalise it and animate it to create clean concise distilled works. A colony of forms that become indicators for a range of varying ideas, structures and references. As a painter he is interested in the fluidity of structure and the microscopic la
About the Exhibition
Michael O'Boyles work coerces the visual language of popular science through a distilled painterly and colourist intervention that creates artificial forms that take their lead from the microscopic world.
He uses microscopy and Scientific illustrations as a primary source for his work with the aim to make the non visible that surrounds us visible, formalise it and animate it to create clean concise distilled works.
A colony of forms that become indicators for a range of varying ideas, structures and references. As a painter he is interested in the fluidity of structure and the microscopic landscape to create portraits of the invisible.
About the Artist
Michael O'Boyle lives in Ballina County Mayo and studied Fine and Applied Art at University of Ulster in Belfast. Recent solo exhibitions include 'exbiologica' at Aras Inis Gluaire Gallery, County Mayo, 'Cyclops' Lakkos Street Project, Heraklion, Greece, 'Chromogenic' Hyde Bridge gallery, Sligo, 'Under the Microscope' Cyprus College of Art, Cyprus, and 'Crystalline' Alliance Francaise, Cork City. Recent group shows include 'Golden Mothers driving West, County Mayo, 'Facts, Fiction and Fragility' Foundation OBRAS, Portugal and 'Fluf&Air' Acreto Gallery, Indiana, USA.
Michael has a solo show in Romania in 2026 and will be undertaking an artist's residency at Kala Yata in Kathmandu, Nepal in April.
"Michael's work embraces the visual language of popular science and reflects a strong sense of organised geometries, colour conversations and graphic structures."