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Reared in the Aotearoa New Zealand graffiti scene, Elliot O\u2019Donnell or Askew One (as he is widely known), has forged a career that spans decades, continents and creative approaches; from graffiti to design, gallery exhibitions to mural works, illustration to video production. A self-taught multi-disciplinary artist, O\u2019Donnell\u2019s artistic trajectory emerged amidst the multi-cultural melting pot of T\u0101maki Makaurau Auckland, the capital of the South Pacific and New Zealand\u2019s largest urban centre; the surrounding environment and diverse cultural influences providing an enduring impact. From these local roots, O\u2019Donnell\u2019s international reputation has grown through collaborations, commissions and exhibitions. Currently residing in Portland, Oregon with his wife and daughter, he has cemented a legacy as one of Aotearoa\u2019s most successful post-Millennial creative exports. <\/p>\n
Seeing graffiti as a kind of alchemy where art is created from basic means, O\u2019Donnell immersed himself in the style writing culture in his early teens, beginning a life-long entanglement that remains his most consistent influence. From organising Auckland\u2019s first graffiti festival to establishing a number of exhibition spaces, publishing the graffiti magazine Disrupt<\/em> and authoring InForm :<\/em> New Zealand Graffiti Artists Discuss Their Work<\/em> (Reed Books, Auckland, 2007), the first significant book on Aotearoa graffiti culture, O\u2019Donnell has been at the forefront of New Zealand graffiti for three decades, as an artist, organiser and public advocate..<\/em> O\u2019Donnell\u2019s artistic evolution has, in many ways, mirrored the maturation of New Zealand urban art, embracing mural and studio work as extensions of his graffiti roots and seeking new pathways and themes.<\/p>\n Absorbing influences, exploring ideas and pushing boundaries, O\u2019Donnell\u2019s art has constantly evolved, revisiting and refining ideas through new filters and re-evaluating process and purpose with an insatiable curiosity. His investigation of letterforms has served as both an ongoing discussion around graffiti\u2019s long-held traditions, while also revealing new directions beyond those foundational parameters, manifesting as studies for paintings, murals, animations, and sculptures. O\u2019Donnell\u2019s expansive post-graffiti practice has explored portraiture, text, abstraction, and investigations of the urban environment, constantly balancing aesthetic and conceptual concerns. The use of technology has been a central feature of O\u2019Donnell\u2019s process, unearthing new terrain and allowing for a conversation between the potential found in the digital and the honesty of the analogue. Shifting between screen, street and studio, compositions are transformed and unlocked as dynamic animations with shifting perspectives that reimagine the artist\u2019s accumulated knowledge and reframe his questions of the world. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Elliot O’Donnell, known as Askew One, is a New Zealand multidisciplinary artist with a career in graffiti and visual arts spanning several decades. Based in Portland, he is recognized for his contributions to graffiti in New Zealand, through festivals, exhibitions and artistic innovation. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"project_category":[279,994,293],"project_tag":[422,282,997,995,283,295,996],"class_list":["post-14067","project","type-project","status-publish","hentry","project_category-artist","project_category-new-zealand","project_category-open-air-museum-en","project_tag-art-valais-en","project_tag-artist-en","project_tag-askew-en","project_tag-msk-en","project_tag-official","project_tag-open-air-museum-en","project_tag-the-seventh-letter-en"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artvalais.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project\/14067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artvalais.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artvalais.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/project"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artvalais.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artvalais.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14067"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/artvalais.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project\/14067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14298,"href":"https:\/\/artvalais.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project\/14067\/revisions\/14298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artvalais.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"project_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artvalais.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project_category?post=14067"},{"taxonomy":"project_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artvalais.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project_tag?post=14067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}> instagram<\/a><\/a><\/h5>\n
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