Josef O'Connor
Founder & Artistic Director at CIRCA- Claim this Profile
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Cat Crawford
Josef is one of those magic people that walk into your life and change it for the better. As inspiring as he is provocative, his ideas are free flowing and courageous. We have worked together many times dreaming up campaigns, art installations, festivals and video art. A true creative director.
Ben Gotto Smith
I took a bit of a gamble hiring Josef to curate a series of art installations for Tiger Beer to celebrate Chinese New Year - he was young, more concerned with the project's artistic integrity than keeping me and my client in our comfort zone and challenged me right from our first meeting. Luckily he totally smashed it out of the park and made me look like a rockstar in my agency, Exposure, which was already packed with rockstars. In fact I have the shot of the old, burn down Brighton Pier, which Josef had 'rebuilt' using laser projection, as the lead image on my own comms portfolio. This image ran in every paper with branded coverage. Yep I did say branded. Josef's vision was so strong and the reality so damn good that, despite the installation itself carrying zero branding, every single paper credited it to Tiger Beer. Needless to say client was thrilled as was I. If you want to look like a creative genius then hire Josef - it's that simple.
Cat Crawford
Josef is one of those magic people that walk into your life and change it for the better. As inspiring as he is provocative, his ideas are free flowing and courageous. We have worked together many times dreaming up campaigns, art installations, festivals and video art. A true creative director.
Ben Gotto Smith
I took a bit of a gamble hiring Josef to curate a series of art installations for Tiger Beer to celebrate Chinese New Year - he was young, more concerned with the project's artistic integrity than keeping me and my client in our comfort zone and challenged me right from our first meeting. Luckily he totally smashed it out of the park and made me look like a rockstar in my agency, Exposure, which was already packed with rockstars. In fact I have the shot of the old, burn down Brighton Pier, which Josef had 'rebuilt' using laser projection, as the lead image on my own comms portfolio. This image ran in every paper with branded coverage. Yep I did say branded. Josef's vision was so strong and the reality so damn good that, despite the installation itself carrying zero branding, every single paper credited it to Tiger Beer. Needless to say client was thrilled as was I. If you want to look like a creative genius then hire Josef - it's that simple.
Cat Crawford
Josef is one of those magic people that walk into your life and change it for the better. As inspiring as he is provocative, his ideas are free flowing and courageous. We have worked together many times dreaming up campaigns, art installations, festivals and video art. A true creative director.
Ben Gotto Smith
I took a bit of a gamble hiring Josef to curate a series of art installations for Tiger Beer to celebrate Chinese New Year - he was young, more concerned with the project's artistic integrity than keeping me and my client in our comfort zone and challenged me right from our first meeting. Luckily he totally smashed it out of the park and made me look like a rockstar in my agency, Exposure, which was already packed with rockstars. In fact I have the shot of the old, burn down Brighton Pier, which Josef had 'rebuilt' using laser projection, as the lead image on my own comms portfolio. This image ran in every paper with branded coverage. Yep I did say branded. Josef's vision was so strong and the reality so damn good that, despite the installation itself carrying zero branding, every single paper credited it to Tiger Beer. Needless to say client was thrilled as was I. If you want to look like a creative genius then hire Josef - it's that simple.
Cat Crawford
Josef is one of those magic people that walk into your life and change it for the better. As inspiring as he is provocative, his ideas are free flowing and courageous. We have worked together many times dreaming up campaigns, art installations, festivals and video art. A true creative director.
Ben Gotto Smith
I took a bit of a gamble hiring Josef to curate a series of art installations for Tiger Beer to celebrate Chinese New Year - he was young, more concerned with the project's artistic integrity than keeping me and my client in our comfort zone and challenged me right from our first meeting. Luckily he totally smashed it out of the park and made me look like a rockstar in my agency, Exposure, which was already packed with rockstars. In fact I have the shot of the old, burn down Brighton Pier, which Josef had 'rebuilt' using laser projection, as the lead image on my own comms portfolio. This image ran in every paper with branded coverage. Yep I did say branded. Josef's vision was so strong and the reality so damn good that, despite the installation itself carrying zero branding, every single paper credited it to Tiger Beer. Needless to say client was thrilled as was I. If you want to look like a creative genius then hire Josef - it's that simple.
Experience
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CIRCA
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United Kingdom
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Artists and Writers
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1 - 100 Employee
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Founder & Artistic Director
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May 2020 - Present
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Josef O'Connor
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London
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Artist
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Jun 2010 - Present
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