Mike O'Shaughnessy

Michael O’Shaughnessy is a Senior Lecturer in Design & Illustration / 0.5
at Liverpool School of Art & Design / LJMU.

Michael O’Shaughnessy’s projects have explored a multi sensory approach to drawing, writing and olfaction.
Projects with Tate Liverpool, The Everyman Theatre and Ørsted Energy included large scale external drawing and writing projects for multiple stakeholders and communities in Art and Design Practice.
Some of this work included an acknowledgement of groups operating within and on the edges of creative hierarchies.


Research Project: Perfume Stories.
This an innovative research project that applies a multi-sensory approach to learning in Art and Design. Perfume Stories are a series of sensory and storytelling workshops based around olfaction and perfume. This unique methodology aims to facilitate learning and aid in the rehabilitation of prisoners at His Majesty’s Prison in the UK.


This research programme is run in collaboration with Novus.ac.uk. One of the biggest providers of Education in the Prison System.

This project began in 2021 when it was installed as part of the Tate Exchange Programme at Liverpool Tate.
Since its pilot with prisoners at HMP Liverpool in 2022. This programme has run with prisoners at four sites -
HMP Hindley, HMP Buckley Hall, HMP Liverpool and HMP Risley.
The latest stage of Perfume Stories is managed by Michael O’Shaughnessy
and delivered by Novus staff across five Prison sites in the North East – HMP Holme House, HMP Durham, HMP Northumberland, HMP Kirklevington and HMP Deerbolt.


Perfume Stories has been shortlisted at the North East Prison Group and Novus Awards in March 2024.


https://notaperfumerypodcast.buzzsprout.com/


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Other research / teaching projects -

Projects with Tate Liverpool, The Everyman Theatre and Ørsted Energy included large scale external drawing and writing projects for multiple stakeholders and communities in Art and Design Practice.
Some of this work included an acknowledgement of groups operating within and on the edges of creative hierarchies.

Illustration/ Commercial clients have included Vogue Magazine / Static Caravan Records / Harper Collins / The Royal Mail / Penguin Books / Macallan Whisky / Universal Music and Elbow.

My Teaching experiences included teaching on the BA Hons Illustration with Animation Programme at MMU in Manchester.
I was External Examiner at AIB from 2006 - 2010.
I was a link tutor for a number of Partners colleges in the North West - including Stockport and St.Helens 2003 - 2011
External Examiner BA hons Graphic Design at Teesside University 2018 - present.


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In February 2021 Michael O’Shaughnessy presented “Perfume Stories: Alchemy, Olfaction and Synaesthesia:
From Liverpool Art School, Tate Liverpool to Walton Jail (HMP Liverpool)”, at the Education and Illustration: Models,
Methods, Paradigms.
11th Illustration Research Symposium at Kingston University, London UK

https://illustrationresearch11.info/

Degrees

1986, Manchester Polytechnic, UK, BA Hons First Class

Academic appointments

External Examiner, BA Hons Graphic Design, Teeside, 2018 - 2022