Rose Bond is a Canadian-born media artist, animator and professor[1] who currently lives and works in Portland, Oregon.
[2] Bond's earlier films deal with feminist issues, questioning whether one gender should rule over another through the medium of animated Irish legends.
[1] In these stories (Deirdre's Choice, Macha's Curse and Cerridwen's Gift), based on figures from Irish legends, Bond painted directly onto clear 35 mm film to create the effect of animation.
[12] Her hand-drawn and hand-painted images for these films were considered dramatic by reviewer, Wendy Jackson, who also felt that Bond's choice of heroines showed a "feminist sensibility.
[17][18] She visits each spot where she will be creating an installation, exploring the buildings and gleaning interesting historical facts to use in her animations.
[16] Bond's projected animations also have the unique capacity to turn the mundane building people see everyday into something special and to challenge with her work, a viewer's "sense of familiarity.