Mac Mansfield
Artist Statement
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2024
2020
2019

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I acknowledge  the Traditional Owners and Custodians of the lands in which I live and work,
the Bidjigal and Gadigal people of the Eora nation. I pay my respect to the Elders, past, present and emerging, and recognise their continuing connection to land, waters and culture. Sovereignty was never ceded.


Lives and works in Sydney

Mac Mansfield’s practice within painting focuses mostly on the use of colour and gesture to build paths within a composition. Working them together and then pulling them back with layers of frenetic mark making, creating forms that act like a kind of furniture within the picture plane.

Mac has an affinity for the line ‘and various ways to tie rope’ that Lou Reed eventually removed from the song Wild Child, feeling that if recontextualised this phrase could express the poetics of this process.