THE RESIDUES by Onya McCausland at Proposition Studios

Proposition are delighted to present The Residues, an exhibition by artist Onya McCausland, developed in collaboration with CLOSE Gallery, alongside a concurrent live programme. The Residues presents new works by Onya McCausland, continuing her ongoing investigation into landscapes transformed by extraction, industry and environmental change. Her paintings speak to sites where the earth has undergone post-extractive alteration: landscapes in which chemical balances have been disrupted, materials displaced, and environments fundamentally transformed through industrial activity. McCausland makes her paintings using materials collected from industrial land sites, mine tailings and waste dams, transforming these residues into dense, site-specific colour. Through this process, industrial contaminants are reconfigured as contemporary painting materials carrying traces of the places from which they came and making visible the structural changes that have taken place within the earth’s systems. Her practice proposes a different way of understanding waste: not as something external to the landscape, but as part of its contemporary material history. McCausland’s deep engagement with...