{"id":66339,"date":"2026-07-17T10:54:44","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T09:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/londoncult.co.uk\/?p=66339"},"modified":"2026-07-17T10:55:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T09:55:09","slug":"the-real-artist-behind-colleen-hoover-s-confess-brings-new-work-to-nobu-hotel-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/londoncult.co.uk\/en\/the-real-artist-behind-colleen-hoover-s-confess-brings-new-work-to-nobu-hotel-london\/","title":{"rendered":"The Real Artist Behind Colleen Hoover\u2019s Confess Brings New Work to Nobu Hotel London"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">O\u2019Connor is best known internationally as the artist behind Colleen Hoover\u2019s bestselling novel Confess: every painting attributed to the book\u2019s fictional artist, Owen Gentry, was created by O\u2019Connor, and his works went on to feature throughout the novel\u2019s television adaptation. His paintings have since been collected and licensed by V Starr Interiors, the design company founded by Venus Williams, and commissioned by Hard Rock Hotel, Ellesse and Everton FC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Awakened Dreams presents a new body of work exploring the threshold between the conscious and unconscious mind, where identities blur, emotions surface and reality dissolves into dream. Fusing portraiture with graffiti, comics and German Expressionism, O\u2019Connor\u2019s hyper-stylised paintings sit at the intersection of fine art and street culture, built up in dense layers of spray paint, ink, charcoal and collage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">O\u2019Connor\u2019s work has been exhibited internationally at venues and fairs including BMW World Munich, the LA Art Show and the Affordable Art Fairs in New York and London.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-vertical is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-4fc3f8e1 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Exhibition: <\/strong>Awakened Dreams \u2014 Danny O\u2019Connor, solo show<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Venue: <\/strong>Nobu Hotel London Portman Square, 22 Portman Square, London W1H 7BG<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Dates: <\/strong>11\u201323 August 2026 | Private view: 13 August, 6:00\u20138:00pm<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Presented by: <\/strong>Eclectic Gallery in collaboration with Nobu Hotel London Portman Square<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.co.uk\/e\/danny-oconnor-solo-show-awakened-dreams-tickets-1992653510290\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Exhibition tickets<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.co.uk\/e\/private-view-danny-oconnor-awakened-dreams-tickets-1989818652153\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Private view tickets<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/eclecticgallery.co.uk\/artists\/39-danny-oconnor\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Artist page<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eclectic Gallery presents Awakened Dreams, a solo exhibition by Liverpool-born artist Danny O\u2019Connor, hosted at Nobu Hotel London Portman Square from 11 to 23 August 2026, with a private view on Thursday 13 August, 6\u20138pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66340,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"type_post":[184],"column":[],"class_list":["post-66339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/londoncult.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/londoncult.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/londoncult.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londoncult.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londoncult.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66339"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/londoncult.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66341,"href":"https:\/\/londoncult.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66339\/revisions\/66341"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londoncult.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/londoncult.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londoncult.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londoncult.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66339"},{"taxonomy":"type_post","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londoncult.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/type_post?post=66339"},{"taxonomy":"column","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londoncult.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/column?post=66339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}