Gabby O'Connor

Gabby O'Connor (born 1974, Melbourne, Victoria) is an Australian Installation Artist based in Wellington, New Zealand.

O'Connor's art practice involves production of site-specific works in paper, rope and light, as well as drawing and theatre-based collaboration.

Works from her 2015 expedition were subsequently displayed at Pataka Art + Museum in a 2016 exhibition titled Studio Antarctica.

[4] In 2018 she commenced a Ph.D. project (University of Auckland Faculty of Creative Arts and Industries that is part of the New Zealand Sustainable Seas National Science Challenge[5] funded by the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment.

This work marked a change in her focus from Antarctica to issues relating to sea level rise and involved development of rope-based sculpture.

Gabby O'Connor's work "What Lies Beneath" as displayed at Wellington City Gallery in 2011.
Scientist observes art installation in Antarctica, 2013. This is located on the sea ice of Haskell Strait , McMurdo Sound and the art material was produced by the artist Gabby O'Connor.
The artist Gabby O'Connor working in a field container on the sea ice of Antarctica.
A container on the sea ice of McMurdo Sound - this is an oceanographic laboratory and has a hole in the floor through which the ocean is accessed. O'Connor has used these containers as a base to create artworks.