
NEVER LET ME GO | XXXII. the giver of scars, 2025
Tiona Nekkia McClodden
PURE GAZE
September 2025
‘PURE GAZE’ features 15 sculptural paintings from Tiona Nekkia McClodden's ongoing series ‘NEVER LET ME GO’, initiated in 2023. Debuting a new body of work, the exhibition furthers the artist’s exploration of the idea of pressure through prolonged constriction, or a hold in excess of duration.
The works employ traditional Japanese kinbaku-bi rope techniques on fine leather hide-bound canvases. Per the practice of kinbaku-bi, each work is executed according to a particular order of operation and framed within the beauty of tight binding. The leather canvases are treated with a range of hand-dyed colour techniques that produce abstract blooms, visually invoking wounds or bruises.

Tiona Nekkia McClodden
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