"Kiera O’Toole is transfixed by how humans experience the world, particularly the involuntary fragment that comes before naming or self-identification. Combining fieldwork, material and philosophical research, she makes ephemeral public site-specific drawings, collages, drawing installations and experimental stop-motion animations.

O’Toole considers herself a ‘patheur’; someone who follows their intuitive impulses, and she makes drawings that must be felt rather than cerebrally understood. She explores drawing’s capacity to map, record, materialise and afford the intimate and hidden intertwining relationships between humans and non-humans as experienced atmospherically. In this context, atmospheres refer to ‘emotional vibrations’ rather than being related to meteorology or atmospheric sciences. Drawing on the concepts from new phenomenology and aesthetics, atmospheres are fundamental experiences of our emotional engagement with the world.
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In her work ‘Weaved Drawing from reworked drawings’, O’Toole aims to create a ‘holding space’ that enables viewers to encounter their affective involvement through an intuitive and felt embodied experience."

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