VICKI MANGAN
Walking the Line 2021
Series of monoprint/ drypoint etchings on Fabriano Rosaspina paper. I am a painter who also uses printmaking methods to discover ways of looking at the often overlooked, instead focusing on the tension between line and gestural mass. My 2021 series Walking the Line uses liminal spaces such as kerbs and path-edges as subjects to explore ideas around unobserved temporal moments. By finding ways to retreat from the conventional aesthetics of the mimetic through the painterly application and removal of the medium, the eye is focused on the places between the organic and the constructed, where the ground is abstracted and the passages between also become the subject of the work.
The Piercing Land 2024
This series of works are not paintings of a place, they are flickers of memories of a glimpse from the corner of my eye while driving back home through the Lewis pass. We are all pierced through by the land which grounds us. The rivers, hills and rocks of Tairawhiti Gisborne and Otautahi Christchurch have sunk deep and the landscapes I paint have become a reflection of my interior world. Time overlays memories, obscuring them and distancing them from the originally perceived reality. Even when physically present the eye captures glimpses and restrings them together. When we remember, it is that collection we recall and draw in our mind.
I have some work available at Little River Gallery or message me for more details.
