Gallery One
Glass from the past

Gallery Two
Portrait

Gallery Three
Figures

Gallery Four
Environment

Publications

• Clear Thinking – Australian glass artistry. May/June 1980. Belle. Australian Consolidated Press.
  
• Glazed expression. November/December 1983. Belle. Australian Consolidated Press.
  
• Stained Glass in Australia. Jenny Zimmer, 1984. Oxford University Press.
  
• Our Glass Studio. Craft Australia. Winter 1985/2 pp 49, 50. Crafts Council of Australia.
  
• Cultivating the Country: Living with the arts in regional Australia. Ed. Peter Timms & Robyn Christie, 1988. Oxford University Press.
  
• Glass: A Contemporary Art. Dan Klein, 1989. Collins.
  
• Australian Studio Glass: The Movement, Its Makers and Their Art. Noris Ioannou, 1995. Caftsman House.
  
• National Art Glass Collection. From The Collection of the City Art Gallery Wagga. 1995. City Art Gallery Wagga Wagga.
  
• The Story of Studio Glass. Ed. Finn Lynggaard, 1998. Rhodos.
  
• Figurative Line Drawing. Dr. Neill Overton. Craft Arts International. No 45, 1999. P 86. Craft–Arts Pty Ltd.
  
• O’Connor ADRIFT: In The Frozen World. Dr. Neill Overton. Craft Arts International. No 84, 2012. P 107. Craft- Arts Pty Ltd.

Selected Catalogues

• With Care. Aus-Glass Show. Jam Factory Gallery. 1979.
  
• Images Now. An exhibition by staff from Caulfield Institute of Technology, Melbourne Victoria. 1980.
  
• With Care. Aus-Glass Show. Jam Factory Gallery. 1979.
  
• Glass from Australia and New Zealand. Hessisches Landesmuseum, Darmstadt Germany. 1985.
  
• The International Exhibition of Glass. Kanazawa, Japan. 1988.
  
• Australian Glass “88”. Meat Market Craft Centre, Melbourne Victoria.
  
• The International  Exhibition of Glass, Kanazawa, Japan. 1990
  
• Art Glass from Australia. Touring exhibition, West Germany, Holland, France. 1990.
  
• Beyond The Great Divide. Arts Council of NSW 50th Anniversary – Visual Arts Exhibition. City Art Gallery Wagga Wagga, NSW Australia 1996.
  
• Faces and Figures. Contemporary Figurative Representation in Alberta. Art is Vital Gallery, Calgary Canada. 1997.
  
• From Line to Life. Denis O’Connor Figurative Drawings. Wagga Wagga Regional Art Gallery. NSW, 1998.
  
• From Line to Life. Denis O’Connor Figurative Drawings. Shepparton Regional Art Gallery. Victoria, 1999.
  
• From Line to Life. Denis O’Connor Figurative Drawings. Grafton Regional Gallery, NSW, 2000.
  
• Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Award. Grafton Regional Gallery. 2000.
  
• The Drawn Line. Survey Exhibition of drawing by Artists of the Albury Wodonga region. Albury Regional Art Gallery, NSW. 2000.
  
• Albury Art Prize. Albury Regional Art Gallery. 2004.
  
• Aaah… TAFE NSW Riverina Institute Arts & Media Staff Exhibition. Wagga Wagga Regional Art Gallery. 2004.
  
• Country Energy Art Prize for Landscape Painting. Finalists Exhibition Goulburn Regional Art Gallery 2006.
  
• Repercussions. Portraits and other Drawings. PhD work in progress. H.R.Gallop Gallery Charles Sturt University Wagga Wagga campus NSW. 2007.
  
• Crossfire. Print and Glass. An exhibition exploring connections. Curated by Cath Bowdler. Wagga Wagga Regional Art Gallery, Wagga Wagga NSW. 2008.
  
• Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Award. Grafton Regional Art Gallery, Grafton NSW.2008
  
• Text/Object. An exhibition of collaborative and inter-disciplinary works by staff of the School of Visual and Performing Arts, Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga campus. NSW. Wagga  Wagga Regional Art Gallery, Wagga Wagga NSW.  2008.
  
• Adrift: Denis O’Connor: Drawings, a twenty year survey. Wagga Wagga Art Gallery. NSW 2011.
  
• Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Award . Grafton Regional Art Gallery, Grafton NSW. 2014.
• Genius Loci. Canberra Glassworks, Kingston ACT. 2018
  

 

Selected Published Essays

• An Unlikely Address. National Student Art Glass Prize catalogue, 2010. Wagga Wagga Art Gallery pub. pp.7 -10.
  
• The Genesis of a Collection. Australian Signatures: The National Art Glass Collection. From the collection of Wagga Wagga Art Gallery, 2013. Wagga Wagga Art Gallery pub. pp 1-5.
  
• Remembering Early Days of Studio Glass in Australia: The genesis of a collection. Why Wagga Wagga? The 16th Biennial Conference of the Australian Association of Glass Artists. Conference paper. 2013. pp 69-74.
  
• Evidence in possession:. The formative years of Australian studio glass. Catalogue, Wagga Wagga Art Gallery. 2015.

 

Published Book

• O’Connor, Denis. An Unlikely Address. A regional gallery and the genesis of a
  collection. Wagga Wagga Art Gallery. 2018. Triple D pub.