Debora talks with artist Helen O'Leary, who, throughout her career, has been constructing a very personal and idiomatic formal language based on simple materials and unglamorous gestures. Her artistic practice emerges from constant reassignment, dismantlement, and frugal readjustment. Rooted in the outward simplicity and inner grenade of memory, her work reckons with damage and multigenerational loss, through nurturing, caring, and—ultimately—healing.
Writing the unwritable novel, 2020-22. Constructed wood, reclaimed pigments, linen, and silverpoint ground. 6' x 5' x 6' ( including crate/ plinth).
