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orn in Ireland in 1973, Enda O’Donoghue is

now living and working in Berlin. In his work

BEnda uses photographs sourced from the

Internet and plays with random throw-away moments

of everyday life, merging them together in various in-

terconnected themes. The painterliness of his tech-

nique works with the disposable nature of his subjects

to make the work sometimes poignant and melancholic,

or alternatively brittle and harsh. Art of O’Donoghue is

deeply influenced by the digital high speed reality we

now live in, and he transports these seemingly mean-

ingless sound-bite images from a place of apparent fu-

tility to one that questions and searches for meaning

through the transformative act of painting.

DPM: Enda, how did you become an artist? Why did

you decide to paint in glitch style?

EOD: How did I become an artist? Well, it certainly

wasn't a very direct route. I was never brought to gal-

leries, museums or anything like that growing up but I

used to draw a lot and eventually progressed on to

painting. I think, as far as I can remember, the first

things I was interested in drawing and painting were im-

ages from comic books and I have a vague recollection

of using a notebook to draw and meticulously catalogue

every superhero that I could find.