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Mandy Franca Dusk II Textile, Oil Pastel and C Type on Paper Signed on Verso 15 x 10cm (5¾ x 3¾ in.) About As a multidisciplinary artist Mandy Franca researches the influence of the digital realm on artefacts, mundanity and the influence of migration. Franca's work is an ongoing investigation into the notion of interconnectedness, drawing from life experiences which are informed by growing up in a cross-cultural environment and her personal archive. Mandy actively researches and observes the meaning of mundanity to give eternal value to seemingly insignificant places and objects. As a result, the notion of preserving languages, traditions, domestic settings and everyday objects in a state of flux - meaning - digital and physical due to digitalization and globalization, takes precedence in her work. Franca's priority is to bring the individual experience into a broader communal context and show the parallels between our common needs, objects and experiences with the notion of care as a fundamental aspect of being. As an artist she subverts and challenges the traditional application of printmaking by experimenting with a range of artistic mediums which intersect at painting, photography, print, drawing, collage, video, sculpture and installation using the photographic image and mark-making as a recurring element. With these techniques Franca wants to challenge ideas of digital materiality, painting and the reproductive image. Education 2018 - 2020: Master of Arts (Distinction) | Print | Royal College of Art | London, UK 2011 - 2016: Bachelor of Arts | Fashion | Willem de Kooning Academy | Rotterdam, NL 2005 - 2009: Vocational Education | Media Design | Graphic Lyceum | Rotterdam, NL Select Exhibitions/Awards 2021: Sequences 05 | Group Exhibition | The Who Gallery 2021: Warm Vessels in Search at Sunset | Group Exhibition | Harlesden High School 2021: Hotsheet 2020 | Group Exhibition | Downstairs Brixton 2021: Holding Space | Group Exhibition | Subject Matter 2020: Lick the Future | Collection/Group Exhibition | Where's the Frame 2020: London Grads Now - Royal College of Art | Group Exhibition | Saatchi Gallery 2020: Royal College of Art & Slade External Degree Show | Group Exhibition | Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery 2020: In Touch | Virtual Group Show | Danielle Arnaud Gallery 2020: Final, Not Over: Session 3 | Group Exhibition | Unit 1 Gallery Workshop 2020: Against the Grain | Group Exhibition | Southwark Park Galleries 2019: 20:20 Insight | Group Exhibition | Soho Revue Gallery GRANTS/AWARDS 2020 - Augustus Martin Prize 2020 - HIGH prize for Creative Excellence (shortlisted) 2019 - Koningin Sophiafonds 2019 - Fundatie van de Vrijvrouwe van Renswoude 2018 - Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork For Art on a Postcard, Mandy Franca made a series of 3 cards with the title Dusk. Different shades of the sun going down, when the sky is filled with shades of red, yellow and orange just before the sky turns dark. Reminding her of warm summer nights, waiting to see shimmering stars. Dusk consists of a mixture of glossy and matt photographs showing fractions of the sky in contrast with oil pastels on textile.