Molly L Cairney studio

I am an artist and arts professional based in central Ohio. I work in collage and fiber and love to research artwork topics, exploring our connection to the environment, history and the artifacts, ephemera, and landscapes that connect us to each other and the past.

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Colonial Orb Weaver, 2024, Mixed media drawing and collage, 24 inches x 18 inches

Image Description: Mixed media drawing and collage showing a colonial orbweaving spider taking its web down during an eclipse.

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Roving, 2016, Mixed media collage, 13.25 inches by 10.5 inches, Private collection

Image description: Collaged image with yellow ledger paper and white document paper woven into a frame around the outside. The upper right and lower left corners have collaged red, pink, and orange flowers. In the center is an illustration of a woman working at a spinning wheel. She is spinning the flowers into thread. Her face has been replaced by a purple star-scape.

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Chicken of the Woods, 2023, Mixed media drawing and collage, 19.5 inches x 13 inches

Image description: yellow and orange illustration of a chicken of the woods fungus set into a collaged tree

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Birds of Passage, 2023, Mixed media drawing and collage, 23.25 inches x 35 inches

Image description: large scale illustration of two mourning doves on a branch with concentric circles collaged in the background

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Praying Mantis, 2023, Mixed media drawing and collage, 24 inches x 18 inches

Image description: drawing of large brown and green praying mantis holding a circle of a flower illustration towards the bottom of the page. There is a large drawing of sedum to the left and collages maps in the back ground

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Silky Swallow Wort, 2023, Mixed media collage, 35 inches x 23.25 inches

Image description: large format drawing of milkweed plant surrounded by concentric circles of collaged elements, primarily maps on dark yellow paper

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The Bubble, 2016, Mixed media collage, 11 inches x 17 inches

Image Description: collage image composed of many small circles. The upper left is primarily blue, the rest of the image is primarily brown with text in the lower left corner that says "the world". There is a large green circle with the text "the dream" containing two smaller white circles, one of which says "you" and the other says "me" and they contain a small blue and two small pink circles.

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Love Letters, 2016, Mixed media collage, 14 inches x 19 inches

Image Description: collage of small brown envelopes, botanical images, and maps. There are two snowy owls on the left third of the artwork

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Indigo Milky, 2023, Mixed media drawing and collage, 12.25 inches x 16.75 inches

Image Description: blue mushroom with stem and cap in foreground with beige mining illustrations in background

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Hart and Palm, 2016, Mixed media collage, 9 inches x 11.5 inches

Image Description: illustration of two deer, one with antlers, surrounded by a collaged border of topographical maps. On the right side of the image is the outline of a hand filled in with small brown, black, and grey circles. The lines on the hand are stitched in and labeled according to a palm reader's map

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Birthroot, 2016, Collage, 13 inches x 18 inches, Private Collection

Image Description: collage with large trillium flower in upper right corner with botanical illustrations flowing out from it in a loose spiral