Mina McSweeney

Bachelor of Fine Arts (Drawing & Printmaking)

My practice centres on the generation of images, from their advent in dreams, visions and archetypes to my production of them in paint and ink. I largely create paintings on canvas and panel, and have recently branched out to create site-specific mural works in hidden and inaccessible spaces.

My work is concerned with transformational imagery and primordial symbolism, influenced by human artistic-spiritual history from ancient cave paintings to Abrahamic mysticism. Jungian notions of the collective unconscious and shared mythological narratives inspire the images I am drawn to create. Through exploring animalistic, religious and human–unhuman chimerical symbolism, I seek a surreal unification of animal and human, conscious and unconscious, above and below, divine and mundane.