Claire Connolly is a figurative artist who creates in the spirit of exchange, to express her relationship with anti-patriarchal experiences. She uses art as a living language—one that can complicate our prevailing order, which exclusively values progress, triumph and fixed ideals. After childbearing precipitated a personal crisis, she became inspired to spend her life exalting the deep mysteries that surround stagnation, defeat and the inevitable chaos of existence. She interweaves oil, gouache or mural paintings with graphic t-shirts. She collaborates with organizations and citizens in her community. Such practices invite her audiences and subjects to ‘speak art’ with her, towards a murkier, richer, truer reality.