1. Previous Next
    Painting, acrylic on canvas, 200 x 200 cm
    Caption
    Does an eyelash matter?, Mannat Gandotra, 2023, acrylic on canvas, 200 x 200 cm

    ©the artist

  2. Previous Next
    Painting, acrylic and charcoal on canvas, 180 x 210 cm
    Caption
    Early Days, Mannat Gandotra, 2023, acrylic and charcoal on canvas, 180 x 210 cm

    ©the artist

  3. Previous Next
    Painting, acrylic and charcoal on canvas, 180 x 180 cm
    Caption
    Our leader died last night, Mannat Gandotra, 2023, acrylic and charcoal on canvas, 180 x 180 cm

    ©the artist

  4. Previous Next
    Painting, acrylic and charcoal on canvas, 170 x 150 cm
    Caption
    Sore throat, Mannat Gandotra, 2022, acrylic and charcoal on canvas, 170 x 150 cm

    ©the artist

  5. Previous Next
    Painting, acrylic and charcoal on canvas, 180 x 180 cm
    Caption
    Dented Trampoline, Mannat Gandotra, 2023, acrylic and charcoal on canvas, 180 x 180 cm

    ©the artist

Mannat Gandotra – BA/BFA

The feud between directness and layering over time. The duel between free and considered. The visual spectrum, formality, questions, induced and fostered mark making, physicality. Air. Water. Light. Gravity. Voice. Gestures as evidence. My paintings are made through processing everyday life, sights and sounds. The process is incidental. It begins with marks on the surface of the canvas, then I begin to extract forms I see in the colours, washes and spaces. I guide the paint but also the paint guides me. As I paint, colours appear to emit light, and forms appear to become gliding ships or sinking kites. In some paintings there are wild gardens where rhythms collide, where nature is breaking down compositions, reordering and disrupting harmony. Atonal, syncopated, dissonant - this is how I see the world. Jarring languages, senses, sounds all meshed into paint. A cycle of lost and found.