Marie Mansfield 'Breakfast' cool tones Sidney NOLAN (1938 - 1992)

Sidney NOLAN (1938 - 1992)

'Birds and Landscape' c

this work celebrates the cycle of life in all its contact highs

this creature has been civilised – its mythic fate paused at a moment of pensive reprieve

often fantastical yet always rich in detail

Marie Mansfield 'Breakfast' cool tones Sidney NOLAN (1938 - 1992)Marie Mansfield's work centres around people and places in an unexpected dance. Her paintings are often devoid of people, yet alive with traces of their presence a spectral energy that conjures melancholy, nostalgia and bemusement. In 'Breakfast', two eggs rest in a dish atop a napkin on an otherwise empty table. Through this pared back composition, Mansfield evokes the quiet promise of the morning mealone egg slightly cracked. Subtly infused with a