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CarolineMcGonigal

Nature Inspired Artist

Finding Inspiration in everyday natural ephemera

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My practice

The natural world is forever in movement, and I try to continually evolve my practice in order to explore and discover the unnoticed within it. Whether this is creating screenprints that highlight and immortalise small lumps of glacier ice, waiting to melt on the beach in Iceland, or filming

chaotic shadow movement in a forest closer to home, my aim is to show off the ordinary, in all its natural wonder and complexity.

I do this by using whichever method is at hand, and I comfortably move between, drawing, painting, screenprinting, video and installation.

some examples

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'Absorbing Time', an exhibition at Art@47 by myself and Patricia Bray. The exhibition included Taku-hon print installations as well as wind painting and poignant use of winged samara seeds. Much of this site specific work was related to loss.

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A still from my shadow video, which was in a down selected group of short films for an audio visual project by Roger and Brian Eno. 2020/2021

Watch video here:

https://youtu.be/kaPyCCt9Iu4

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A still from 'Walk The Flesh Transparent' video work. Made from the down of the Creeping Thistle plant. Shown at Art Spot Korin, Kyoto.

Watch video here: https://youtu.be/9SdOai3Dhqk

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Breezes Loosely Captured, fumage and graphite on wooden panel

Drawing with fumage (or candle smoke), in this mixed media work. The combination of free mark making by the breeze, in contrast to considered mark making by my human hand.

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'Family Portrait' of melting ice on Jokulsarlon beach, Iceland.

Screenprint overlaid with volcanic dust from Eyjafjallajökul volcanic eruption. The mark making was a performative work of digital gestures, pinches, pulls and swipes.

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Harnessing the wind to make part of a work.

I consider this process a conversation with nature.

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artwork on paperCopy of Fu cropped DD image.jpg

'Fu', or wind in Japanese. Semi abstract sea collage. Gouache painting and ink wind drawing.

A work where painting and harnessing nature are combined.

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'Into The Earth', handmade painted ceramic stones, with bodily imprints.

A combination of body and clay together to form distorted stones and pebbles , that at first appear normal, until closer inspection. Referencing how our human interaction directly affects our environment..

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Butterfly stones.jpg

'Flux', manipulated photograph of found glacier ice in butterfly form.

Is the owner of the walking boot a friend, a threat or a spectator. This image was created in order to question what it is that we are seeing.

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my image from Absorbing Time exhibition.jpg

'Absorbing Time', an exhibition at Art@47 by myself and Patricia Bray. The exhibition included Taku-hon print installations as well as wind painting and poignant use of winged samara seeds. Much of this site specific work was related to loss.

Go to about page

Mixing Colours still from vid.png

A still from my shadow video, which was in a down selected group of short films for an audio visual project by Roger and Brian Eno. 2020/2021

Watch video here:

https://youtu.be/kaPyCCt9Iu4

Go to about page

me blanket_edited_edited.jpg

A still from 'Walk The Flesh Transparent' video work. Made from the down of the Creeping Thistle plant. Shown at Art Spot Korin, Kyoto.

Watch video here: https://youtu.be/9SdOai3Dhqk

Go to about page

Breezes Loosely Captured, fumage and graphite on wooden panel

Drawing with fumage (or candle smoke), in this mixed media work. The combination of free mark making by the breeze, in contrast to considered mark making by my human hand.

Go to about page

Family Portrait A La Luz (2).jpg

'Family Portrait' of melting ice on Jokulsarlon beach, Iceland.

Screenprint overlaid with volcanic dust from Eyjafjallajökul volcanic eruption. The mark making was a performative work of digital gestures, pinches, pulls and swipes.

Go to about page

garden shadow not me.jpg

Harnessing the wind to make part of a work.

I consider this process a conversation with nature.

Go to about page

artwork on paperCopy of Fu cropped DD image.jpg

'Fu', or wind in Japanese. Semi abstract sea collage. Gouache painting and ink wind drawing.

A work where painting and harnessing nature are combined.

Go to about page

handmade ceramic stones with bodily imprints_edited.jpg

'Into The Earth', handmade painted ceramic stones, with bodily imprints.

A combination of body and clay together to form distorted stones and pebbles , that at first appear normal, until closer inspection. Referencing how our human interaction directly affects our environment..

Go to about page

Butterfly stones.jpg

'Flux', manipulated photograph of found glacier ice in butterfly form.

Is the owner of the walking boot a friend, a threat or a spectator. This image was created in order to question what it is that we are seeing.

Go to about page

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