With an eye for artistic and commercial collaborations, Andrew O’Brien – previously the head of Commercial Operations & Initiatives at NGV – is opening his first solo show of artwork, to be displayed in amongst Corporate Culture’s furniture showroom.

With two distinct series that will co-inhabit the space, O’Brien will for the first showcase a series of 10 large abstract murals, which touch on the temporal relationship between 2D and 3D objects. Large and colourful, these paintings are heavily worked and textural and will sit alongside another set of images that reference surface and texture and the pasting and removal of images on walls. This series of graphic works will touch on the social prominence of settings and how easily we can take things down or paste over them.

Following the opening night event, in which the artwork will be hung in one gallery space, curator Miranda Hogg will rehang O’Brien’s works amongst the modern Danish and Italian furniture over three floors, with the space styled by Megan Hounslow curator from Meme Design.

This is the first of several collaborations in which Corporate Culture will invite designers to carry out a three-month residency to create a context for art and design.

Andrew O’Brien’s show opens at Corporate Culture on Thursday November 10 and will run until February 2012.

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