In 2012 O'Connell's textile work was exhibited at the Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria, Australia with the publication of The Lost Modernist by Harriet Edquist (Melbourne Books).
Also work can be seen at The National Gallery of Australia, Canberra and the National Gallery of Victoria.
Textiles Murals Designed and Hand Painted Printed by Michael O'Connell.
Exhibitiion catalogue for Georges Gallery, Melbourne; Catalogue for an exhibition of Linocuts, Everyman's Lending Library, Melbourne 1932; J McPhee Australian Decorative Arts in the Australian National Gallery 1982; The Primrose Pottery Shop by E Macmillan, Melbourne; A catalogue of the Arts & Crafts Society of Victoria. Recorder no 2, June 1929 and no 3, Sept 1929, no 5 June 1930, no 8 April 1931; no 12 April 1933, no 13 October 1933; Home (Sydney) Oct 1932; Manufscripts (Geelong) no 8 Feb 193; Art in Australia 67, May 1937; Australian Connoisseur and Collect, 2 1982.
The Museum of Rural Life, Reading, Berkshire holds O'Connell's Festival of Britain's Variety of Britiish Farming hangings.
Further Reading:
Michael O'Connell The Lost Modernist by Harriet Edquist p 52, p 136/7. Most of the information in this article came from Ms Edquist's excellent and readable book.
O'Connell, Michael William 1898-1976 by John McPhee. Australian Dectionary of Biography, vol 11, Melbourne University Press 1988 p 50-51.
Michael O'Connell 1898-1976 by C McGegan. Exhibition catalogue at The Gallery, Whiterock House, Over Haddon 1977.
Artists' Textiles in Britain 1945-1970 p 45, 60.
20th Century Pattern Design by Lesley Jackson p 74,82,83,98,99.
British Textile Designs Today (1939) by Hayes Marshall.
Numerous magazines published his work throughout the 1940s and 1950s including Stuio Dec 1950; House and Garden Design and Ideal Home.
* Photos from Harriet Edquist's book.
Another version of Electronics, 1950s
O'Connell's signature
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