MANDY LIEDKE

Paintings - Drawings - Sculpture - Lithographs - Mixed Media - Poetry - Photos - Textiles - Constructions - Community Projects

 

ARTIST'S STATEMENT

 

My work is an expression of the present moment, my present mental state, being in a constant state of movement
and impermanence.

I am interested in the boundaries between mental disturbance and modern art, concerned with the question: how these
different nodes of thought appear and disappear, using art as a meduium to find answers.

I create new mature symbols from childish naive scribbels. Everything has the need to develop, to grow into a world of
uncertainty and freedom. The use of very basic materials, like marker pens, pencils, newspaper, found cloth etc gives
my paintings and drawings the innocence they need, in order to express various forms of thinking.

The creative act is similar to the act of meditation, to sit still , unable to run away from the mind , watching how an
unconscious thought becomes conscious through my work.

In fact, if we want to discover the boundaries between mental illness and modern art, we need to be aware of our own
disabilities.

 

'Awareness' , Handmade Paper, 23cm by 23cm
MANDY LIEDKE

'Being', Handmade Paper, 120cm by 120 cm
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'Meditation', Handmade Paper, 220cm by 100cm
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' The oceanic Feeling', Pen, Goache and Cloth, 120cm by 70cm
MANDY LIEDKE

'Premeditation' Pen on cloth, 120cm by 70cm
MANDY LIEDKE

'Premeditation II' Pen on cloth, 120cm by 70cm
MANDY LIEDKE

' The Sublime' , pen on cloth 150cm by70cm
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