Kelly O'Neill, "A Constellation of Wounds"
$1200. Hand quilted washi/Japanese paper, quilt batting, acrylic paint, pastel, threads, pins. 84” x 31” (at widest point).
Price does not include shipping. Contact info@collarworks.org for a shipping estimate.
Artist Statement
Working with latex, video, assemblage, text, and incorporating traditional textile methods with unconventional materials I create objects and experiences that explore the fluidity and impermeability of human experience. I work with objects and materials that relate to the materiality of our physical beings. Often beginning with a personal experience, I search for an image, substance, experience that moves beyond the personal to the collective. I aim to dissolve the border between viewer and object; to make accessible, not only the presence of the artwork, but also the viewers’ felt presence as they enter their own materiality. My work comes particularly from my position as a woman and examines the constructs that impose upon my identity. Examining the history of visual language, the portrayal of women and the myths that this imagery imprints, promotes and propagates is considered in much of my work.
Artist Bio
Kelly O’Neill is a sculpture/installation, mixed media, textile artist, and mother living in Ontario, Canada. After completing an HonBA in Philosophy and English Literature, O’Neill worked as a Social Worker before having a family and staying home to raise her 4 children. Having had an art practice throughout her life that often came second to other responsibilities, O’Neill returned to school full-time, balancing home responsibilities with schooling and completed her BFA in Sculpture and Installation at OCAD University, Toronto, ON. (2018) Community building as creative expression is important to O’Neill’s practice and has led to her involvement in many community art projects and membership in collectives such as Essential Relations and The Cloth Care Collective. Her work has been shown in galleries throughout Canada including J.B. Aird Gallery, Toronto; Pendulum Gallery, Vancouver; WKP Kennedy Gallery, North Bay; Art Mur, Montreal, and The Art Gallery of Peterborough, Ontario.
$1200. Hand quilted washi/Japanese paper, quilt batting, acrylic paint, pastel, threads, pins. 84” x 31” (at widest point).
Price does not include shipping. Contact info@collarworks.org for a shipping estimate.
Artist Statement
Working with latex, video, assemblage, text, and incorporating traditional textile methods with unconventional materials I create objects and experiences that explore the fluidity and impermeability of human experience. I work with objects and materials that relate to the materiality of our physical beings. Often beginning with a personal experience, I search for an image, substance, experience that moves beyond the personal to the collective. I aim to dissolve the border between viewer and object; to make accessible, not only the presence of the artwork, but also the viewers’ felt presence as they enter their own materiality. My work comes particularly from my position as a woman and examines the constructs that impose upon my identity. Examining the history of visual language, the portrayal of women and the myths that this imagery imprints, promotes and propagates is considered in much of my work.
Artist Bio
Kelly O’Neill is a sculpture/installation, mixed media, textile artist, and mother living in Ontario, Canada. After completing an HonBA in Philosophy and English Literature, O’Neill worked as a Social Worker before having a family and staying home to raise her 4 children. Having had an art practice throughout her life that often came second to other responsibilities, O’Neill returned to school full-time, balancing home responsibilities with schooling and completed her BFA in Sculpture and Installation at OCAD University, Toronto, ON. (2018) Community building as creative expression is important to O’Neill’s practice and has led to her involvement in many community art projects and membership in collectives such as Essential Relations and The Cloth Care Collective. Her work has been shown in galleries throughout Canada including J.B. Aird Gallery, Toronto; Pendulum Gallery, Vancouver; WKP Kennedy Gallery, North Bay; Art Mur, Montreal, and The Art Gallery of Peterborough, Ontario.
$1200. Hand quilted washi/Japanese paper, quilt batting, acrylic paint, pastel, threads, pins. 84” x 31” (at widest point).
Price does not include shipping. Contact info@collarworks.org for a shipping estimate.
Artist Statement
Working with latex, video, assemblage, text, and incorporating traditional textile methods with unconventional materials I create objects and experiences that explore the fluidity and impermeability of human experience. I work with objects and materials that relate to the materiality of our physical beings. Often beginning with a personal experience, I search for an image, substance, experience that moves beyond the personal to the collective. I aim to dissolve the border between viewer and object; to make accessible, not only the presence of the artwork, but also the viewers’ felt presence as they enter their own materiality. My work comes particularly from my position as a woman and examines the constructs that impose upon my identity. Examining the history of visual language, the portrayal of women and the myths that this imagery imprints, promotes and propagates is considered in much of my work.
Artist Bio
Kelly O’Neill is a sculpture/installation, mixed media, textile artist, and mother living in Ontario, Canada. After completing an HonBA in Philosophy and English Literature, O’Neill worked as a Social Worker before having a family and staying home to raise her 4 children. Having had an art practice throughout her life that often came second to other responsibilities, O’Neill returned to school full-time, balancing home responsibilities with schooling and completed her BFA in Sculpture and Installation at OCAD University, Toronto, ON. (2018) Community building as creative expression is important to O’Neill’s practice and has led to her involvement in many community art projects and membership in collectives such as Essential Relations and The Cloth Care Collective. Her work has been shown in galleries throughout Canada including J.B. Aird Gallery, Toronto; Pendulum Gallery, Vancouver; WKP Kennedy Gallery, North Bay; Art Mur, Montreal, and The Art Gallery of Peterborough, Ontario.