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Caitlin McDonagh

Most recently my work and research has revolved around an interest in movement. My research began by exploring movement in automata, where I found a desire to create work that could interact more directly with the viewer, sometimes involving them in the artwork’s performance. I then became curious about the chain of events that would unfold as the viewer began moving the artwork, they in turn were also moving. This led me to explore movement in the human body, and more broadly, movement on a cellular level. Influenced by my own conflicting emotions about my body and anxieties, I began exploring the emotional state of the body and the physical body as combined visual representations. My newest body of work Bound to Separate explores this relationship, driven by the existential desire to understand our purpose, place and connection to cellular life and movement. With an interest in taking a step back and looking at our own existence from a different perspective, showing the human body in the form of unseen levels through drawings, paintings, and mixed media sculpture.
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