Oliver McConnie's work explores the contemporary subversive potential of printing-making. Etchings, in their scale and intensity, create a strong sense of looking into something, a cave, another world; this fits with the origin of the term grotesque which is 'looking into the grotto'. Drawing on this quality, and without employing reductive irony, McConnie wishes to produce parodic prophecies of the immediate present and future. Oliver McConnie studied at Canterbury (BA fine art), Camberwell (MA printmaking) and the Royal Drawing School (post graduate drawing year), and was an artist in residence at the Sarabande Foundation in London. Oliver has exhibited works in the Bloomberg New Contemporaries, MOSTYN Open, Royal Academy of Arts and Somerset House. He lives and works in the United Kingdom.