Room: Hellman's Room
Working with images from the Archive, O’Neill was commissioned to make site specific works for the new Hellmann’s room at the Unilever Four Acres site in 2021. Both works focus on the story of Hellmann’s through the ages and how, as a brand, Hellmann’s has always focused on collective food enjoyment.
O’Neill has chosen to show this through selecting an iconic vintage archive image of the Hellmann’s mayonnaise jar which she scanned and digitally layered drawings on top of. By doing this O’Neill shows a juxtaposition of modernity and tradition, subtly stating that we can learn from both to go forward into a
waste free sustainable future.
By using the iconic Hellmann’s colours as bright bold backgrounds for each work, O’Neill has transformed each jar into a modern day pop art icon.
Ipad drawing, unique
2021
Molly O’Neill
Selected Exhibition & Awards History
- 2021IABA Reconnecting, OXO Tower Wharf, London
- 2021Animation Degree Show, Kingston University, London
- 2021Winner: Best Social Impact award, Soho Film Festival, London
Artist info
Molly O’Neill is a British illustrator who graduated with a BA in Illustration and Animation from Kingston University London in 2021.
O’Neill’s personal focus is around adapting poems into works that focus on the poems’ environment. Working with landscape and space allows O’Neill to animate an atmosphere with tone.
Nature is a key theme throughout O’Neill’s artistic outpour and she always aims to work instinctively to create a true reflection of her personal emotional response in the present moment of creation with each project she works on.
O’Neill also works on commercial briefs aiming to bring her ethos around nature and the environment into each, focusing often on history and research to bring together timelines in a nonlinear fashion.