Oona brings a deep love and respect for artistic communication to her work as an artist and art therapist. Oona views the art-making process as an enriching place for imagination, inquiry, empowerment, and relational connection. Oona’s art practice is largely autobiographical. She is interested in documenting intimate personal experiences and addressing the (dis)connections we have to our stories by ritualizing the impossibility of returning to the origin of our memories. In recent years, Oona has been informed by her evolving relationship to the experience of the maternal and its subjectivity. Through her artwork Oona attempts to deconstruct and augment the discourse on how and what it feels like to “mother”. She is interested in creating opportunities to explore the emotional complexities of matrescence and using art as a cathartic act to reconcile the ambivalence. Oona’s art processes can be described as ‘textile mark-making’ in which she applies simple machine or hand sewing techniques to draw (or mark) into paper or antique linen. This choice enables her to embody the experiences she is exploring and make work that reimagines traditional textile/fiber work. Oona McClure (she/her) BA | DVATI | RCAT |
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