“My work returns obsessively to repetition visual and conceptual. Whether through collaged grids or looping GIFs, images are cut, cycled, and replayed until they become something new. Drawing on nostalgic sources such as film stills, art history, found photographs, I explore 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 been working with collage for over twenty years. Her work has been exhibited internationally in galleries and art fairs, and is held in numerous private and corporate collections.
Erin is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice centres on collage, both analog and digital, as a means of reimagining found imagery and interrogating the ways identity is constructed, performed, and perceived. Working with vintage photographs, hand-cut fragments, digital manipulation, and coded animations, she explores the intersections of memory, beauty, and the gaze. Her process often begins with physical materials, which are scanned, altered, and reassembled through layered systems that mimic the logic of code, repetition, and machine learning. The result is work that feels simultaneously archival and contemporary, tactile and technological.
Much of McGean’s recent work addresses the aesthetics of the female form, questioning how women are rendered, by the camera, by history, by algorithms and how these images are consumed and reshaped in the digital age. By introducing movement through stop-motion and digital manipulation, she disrupts the stillness of the image, creating a sense of rhythm and reassembly that echoes the fragmented nature of online identity.
