ARTIST BIO – DAMIEN O’MARA

Damien worked as a structural design engineer for 10 years before studying filmmaking in 2009. He made two documentaries, with his 2012 film, Art at the Interface being broadcast on SBS. Damien began exhibiting photographs in 2012, winning the Aesthetica Art Prize in the UK in 2013. He is currently enrolled in a Doctorate of Visual Arts at the Queensland College of Art in Brisbane.