The solo exhibition 'Tailings', currently on view at CLOSE Gallery, has been featured in a recent article by FLO Magazine.
Published to mark Earth Day, the feature highlights McCausland’s practice and its exploration of environmental impact through the material language of painting. Her work is centred on the use of pigments derived from industrial mining waste, transforming by-products of ecological disruption into nuanced fields of colour.
The article reflects on the meditative quality of McCausland’s paintings - muted ochres, rusts and mineral tones - while drawing attention to their origin in the residue of extraction processes. Through this approach, the work positions painting as both a material record and a reflection on the relationship between human activity and landscape.
Tailings brings together a new body of work in which each painting is anchored to a specific location, titled using geographic coordinates. The exhibition considers the afterlives of industrial sites and the overlap between geological and human timescales, inviting a closer reading of landscapes shaped by extraction and transformation.
Tailings runs at CLOSE Gallery from 25 April - 30 May 2026.
Read the full article on FLO Magazine:
https://www.flolondon.co.uk/all-posts/earth-day-reflections-on-our-environmental-impact-with-the-meditative-paintings-of-onya-mccausland
