About

Through a practice of painting, sculpture, and video works, Oceanna Hain exposes the malleability, fragility and potential of the human form. Her work expands on the possibilities of the future body set forth by Transhuman discourse and investigates the liminal space the body resides in when it is in a transitional, unfixed state. Using an experimental process of cataloging the body through self portraiture and re-imagining it through paint and sculpture, the work offers a departure from reality and the known human form. Her current practice centers around themes of hybrid forms of physicality, navigating social and bodily boundaries regarding sex, gender and form, hierarchical relationships between subject and viewer and identity formations within embodiment.

Hain received a Bachelor of Arts and California Single Subject teaching credential from Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, California (2020). She is currently completing her Master of Fine Arts at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in Melbourne, Australia. She lives and works in Naarm (Melbourne) where she continues her practice and is available for commission and collaborative opportunities.