InFrame

InFrame is my newest personal portrait series featuring people in Ottawa and beyond who are making a difference in their own unique way. Some are leading quietly and creatively, some are developing new ideas, and some are simply showing up consistently and with care for others. Through this project, I hope to share portraits and reflections that feel honest, thoughtful, and encouraging.

Each person I photograph is asked one question: “What does making a difference mean to you?”

If someone comes to mind who should be part of this series, I’d be grateful to hear from you.

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Eryn O’Neill is an Ottawa-born painter whose work explores urban spaces in transition. With degrees from NSCAD University and the University of Waterloo, and advanced studies at Carleton University, she brings both academic depth and lived observation to her practice. Her studio is based in the ByWard Market at The Rectory Art House.

Eryn O’Neill - What does making a difference mean to you?

“As an artist, to me it means demonstrating that painting can function as a legitimate mode of research and cultural critique. Through research-creation, painting becomes a way of producing knowledge, one that captures duration, instability, and progress. In creating a visual archive of Ottawa’s LRT expansion and major construction projects and presenting it publicly, the project opens space for dialogue about accessibility, safety, and everyday urban life.

To make a difference, then, is to intervene culturally: to expand what counts as knowledge, whose experiences matter, and how cities in transformation can be understood more fully and more humanely.”

Eryn O’Neill
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