Dunhill and O’Brien: The Sculpture Stories
11 April - 9 May 2026
Dunhill and O’Brien have been exploring ways that they can look at, think about, and make sculpture together for almost thirty years. Their latest project The Sculpture Stories has evolved in response to a challenge from Sandie Macrae, director of PostROOM.
The dining room (and the garden shed), often becomes the gallery called PostROOM. Once a week it acts as a playroom. For the last fortnight Dunhill and O’Brien have occupied the room, and it has become a filmset. Using materials from previous projects they have made a 6-minute film focusing on a sculpture by the Victorian artist George Frederick Watts.
For the four week period of the exhibition, alongside its usual domestic duties, the room will host an installation that performs as studio; storage space and screening room. The various objects in the space have been left to hover in a slippery place somewhere between tools, props and sculptures.
Based in London Dunhill and O’Brien’s interest in sculpture and its often absurd and troubling logistics has led to residencies and exhibitions in a range of contexts including the British School at Rome; the European Ceramic Work Centre s’Hertogenbosch, Holland; AirSpace Gallery (for the British Ceramic Biennial); Kunstvereniging Diepenheim, Holland; Das Weisse Haus, Vienna; Tallinn Art Hall Estonia; Estorick Collection; Danielle Arnaud Gallery; White Conduit Projects; PostROOM, the Setouchi Triennale; and Limerick City Museum and Art Gallery.
They have advertised as artists who dig holes for free, visited 19th century Fuji like mounds in the Tokyo region, measured ‘celebrity’ boulders in the UK countryside, and interviewed dentists, rock climbers, masseurs and others who employ tactile knowledge. Their most recent project for Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum responded to a sculpture in their collection and involved a house-sized installation with input from over one hundred participants in London and Tokyo.