BIOGRAPHY

Mandy Boursicot graduated from Emily Carr University,(Vancouver, Canada) in 1999. Since then,
she has been a professional artist, receiving both national and international recognition, with
exhibitions in Canada, Europe and Asia. She is the main drawing instructor at the Angel Academy of Art in Florence, Italy.

Her current art practice combines contemporary humanist themes with classical realism techniques.
The work centers on representations of the human figure as well as narratives explained through still life.

From an early age, Mandy traveled with her family around the world, visiting museums, art galleries and churches.
This had a profound influence on her, cultivating an interest in expressive, emotive and representational art.
Today, she continues to travel, to marvel at paintings, sculptures and architecture that tell the story of human experience,
across time and across so many varied cultures.

STATEMENT

Over the past ten years, I have been using the genre of still life to express my notions of cultural identity. Being of mixed heritage, I was acutely aware of certain dualities which exist universally and within myself.
Often polar opposites, they sometimes collide, and at times, meld and flow into one another. Obvious examples are east and west, traditional and contemporary, poetic and prosaic, generic and specific, ideal and real, fleeting and infinite.

My art practice has now expanded from still lifes into a wider range of representation. ideal and real, fleeting and infinite. Concurrent with this expansion, is a new discovery; that alongside dualities exists a continuum between apparent paradoxes. My new purpose is to represent those fragments of my own observations and experiences, taken from somewhere along one of those continua, and to convey these in a perspective affirming a larger meaning and greater understanding of universal human values and concerns.

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CONTACT: mandyboursicot@gmail.com