Erin McGean
My work returns obsessively to repetition, both visual and conceptual. Through collaged grids and looping GIFs, images are cut, cycled, and replayed until they become something new. Drawing on nostalgic sources such as film stills, art history, and found photographs, the work explores how identity is shaped not by singular images, but by fragments, echoes, and the distortions of memory.
Erin McGean is a Canadian visual artist based in Oakville, Ontario. She studied Fine Art at York University and has worked with collage for over twenty years. Her multidisciplinary practice spans analog and digital collage, using hand-cut materials, digital manipulation, and coded animation to reimagine found imagery. Physical materials are often the starting point, scanned and reassembled through layered systems informed by repetition and machine logic, resulting in work that feels both archival and contemporary.
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