Oona Grimes
Weed Killer: Three Chapters of Medea Syndrome

26 September - 31 October 2026


Oona Grimes Etruscan children: Medea syndrome 2024. #27 75 x 110 cm. Stencil drawing & collage on paper.

 “The work always seems to be about monsters in the domestic margins, the tyranny of complicit silence & child abuse - all wrapped in comic strip language.”

Weed Killer comprises of three chapters:

1. Stencil drawings on black paper where the monster-healer mother murders her children.
2. Coloured pencil & collage on drafting film conjures the bruised ghosts of the dead children.
3. A short film spins the yarn of absolute laws - the three Fates of thread, measured life and final severance.