Tandanya, Mangkaia Arts

I have just been to see the Mangkaia Arts exhibition at Tandanya in Grenville Street. The artists exhibiting are based in Fitzroy Crossing, WA This exhibition is stunning and I was amazed at the vividness and sheer beauty of the paintings. There is great diversity within the exhibition, but my favourite painting is by Phyliss Waye titled 'My Mothers Country', 2011, Atelier acrylic on canvas,120 x120cm, $2. 918. This is a painting made up of a profusion of dots, in bright pastel shades. Waye describes it as seeing the wildflowers around the water holes in her mothers country. It is abstract and an optical illusion, because when I stood back and looked at it it seemed to move and dance before my eyes, much like flowers move in a gentle breeze. I was stunned. As I moved closer, the abstraction took on another form of texture, light and colour, I found this painting  extremely moving, emotionally because it was such a remarkable sensory experience.