Mike O'Shaughnessy

Michael O’Shaughnessy is the Programme for MA Graphic Design & Illustration
at Liverpool School of Art & Design / LJMU.


Michael O’Shaughnessy’s projects have explored some of the perceived ideas around
how we measure intelligence through a tangible approach to writing and drawing.

Projects with Tate Liverpool, The Everyman Theatre and Ørsted Energy included large scale external drawing and writing projects for multiple stakeholders and communities in Art and Design Practice.
Some of this work included an acknowledgement of groups operating within and on the edges of creative hierarchies.

These ideas were expanded in a multi-sensory participatory collaboration with Novus.ac.uk.
This encouraged literacy amongst learners at Her Majesty’s Prison Service and was constructed around a series of workshops.

Perfume Stories: Alchemy, Olfaction and Synaesthesia was installed at Tate Liverpool in December 2019

In February 2021 Michael O’Shaughnessy presented
“Perfume Stories: Alchemy, Olfaction and Synaesthesia:
From Liverpool Art School, Tate Liverpool to Walton Jail (HMP Liverpool)”,
at the Education and Illustration: Models, Methods, Paradigms.
11th Illustration Research Symposium
at Kingston University, London UK

https://illustrationresearch11.info/

Perfume Stories : The Time Travellers is now a pilot scheme being run in conjunction
with Novus.ac.uk, who work in partnership with the Ministry of Justice,
Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS), Youth Custody Service (YCS), HMPPS Wales,
NHS trusts, national and devolved governments, Local Enterprise Partnerships,
charities, employers and local authorities. They are are recognised for their transformative programmes.
The scheme and workshops are being trialled at HMP Hindley, HMP Buckley and HMP Risley.
This is part of an Arts Council Funding Bid.

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Illustration/ Commercial clients have included Vogue Magazine / Static Caravan Records / Harper Collins / The Royal Mail / Penguin Books / Macallan Whisky / Universal Music and Elbow.

My Teaching experiences included teaching on the BA Hons Illustration with Animation Programme at MMU in Manchester.
I was External Examiner at AIB from 2006 - 2010.
I was a link tutor for a number of Partners colleges in the North West - including Stockport and St.Helens 2003 - 2011
External Examiner BA hons Graphic Design at Teesside University 2018 - present.

My recent research projects have included -

SuperDudeyWords -
A collaboration with Tate Liverpool. This project stemmed from a large public and commercial work I completed with the Everyman Theatre and Uniform Design Agency Liverpool. It began as a Research Project about Handwriting and Intelligence.
I was invited by Tate Liverpool to work with Liverpool School children as part of Circuit and The Keywords Exhibition
at Tate Liverpool in 2014.

Elusive Edge -
This project was funded by the Institute for Capital Culture in 2015. It was a joint University Liverpool and LJMU initiative which explored the concept of Cultural Leadership. My own involvement began by hosting a talk with Skateboarders and Creatives at LJMU - 'The Reluctant Protagonist'. It explored the link between Skateboarding and Creativity

Kings Wharf and Superdudeywords 2017
Exploring the shifting space between handwriting, calligraphy and Graffiti.

A Publication and Large scale Public Hoarding. This explores a number of ideas. The most significant is, how to make public text based artworks that engage with a wider public but also acknowledge marginalised and disenfranchised communities. Embedding this inclusivity in the design process may provide a blueprint about how to design out vandalism and graffiti.

The text is divided into three sections.
The Everyman Theatre Liverpool, Tate Liverpool and Kings Wharf.
It represents a number of projects, workshops and interviews. It begins with a large public Artwork which was part of a redevelopment on Hope Street. It documents my writing experiments and collaborations with Tate Liverpool. It ends with a large public Artwork commissioned by Dong Energy / Ørsted and Robertson Construction UK

This project was been funded by Dong Energy/ Ørsted and Robertson Construction UK.


An edition of 100
ISBN: 978-0-9930113-2-0

design by Michael O’Shaughnessy
Published by Studio Editions
copyright [c] studio editions 2017
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Degrees

1986, Manchester Polytechnic, UK, BA Hons First Class

Academic appointments

External Examiner, BA Hons Graphic Design, Teeside, 2018 - 2022