Patrick O’Reilly’s wild eclecticism can be perplexing, but his latest work, a giant haystack in a church, is a thrilling success. How often is it that you smell a work of art before you see it? Patrick O’Reilly’s Haystack (The Consideration of the Planets , 2013),...

ALMOST HALF a century after Andy Warhol signalled the birth of pop art with Campbell’s Soup cans, the tin can is still making shapes in the art world in the form of a 10m cathedral by artist Patrick O’Reilly. The towering sculpture contains between 4,000 and 5,000...

With a church for a studio, sacred music turned up loud and nights sometimes spent in the confession box, it’s no wonder that sculptor Patrick O’Reilly feels he is finding out ‘what’s in my soul that I really want to say’ NIBBLING GRAPES, smoking cigarettes and...