I am an environmentally-focused artist currently exploring relationships of generosity and trust between human and nonhuman beings through sculpture, experiential installations, close examination of ecosystems, and performance. As an environmentalist and artist, my process-based art is a counteraction to paralyzing feelings of fear and helplessness that arise through living with and studying climate change. Care and regeneration are both the means and the goal; I exercise care for my immediate surroundings in order to receive care from them. I immerse myself deeply in time spent making and observing, and relinquish control of the visual forms of my work in favor of working in generative partnership with the light, water, spaces, and living things which construct and inhabit my ecosystem and celebrating an ecology of supportive interconnection.
Fiona O’Loughlin is an interdisciplinary artist currently based in Portland, Oregon. They received their BA in Art Studio and Environmental Studies from Mount Holyoke College in 2023. Their work has been shown at the Lunaria Gallery in Silverton, Oregon, the Mount Holyoke Art Gallery, Talcott Greenhouse, and Gaylord Memorial Library in South Hadley, Massachusetts, and at the Burren College of Art in Ballyvaughan, County Clare, Ireland. They were the recipient of the 2023 Janet Brooks Prize for Excellence.
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