About

Reflexions, echoes, reverberating back and back to infinity: I have discovered the pleasure of having a long past behind me ... a background to the diaphanous present; a background that gives its colour and its light, just as rocks or sand show through the shifting brilliance of the sea.
- Simone de Beauvoir
The play of daylight on a decaying plaster wall. A line carved through space by an outflung arm. The planes and folds of a face, expression revealed in the shadows, the lines of a life fully lived. Inspiration is in all of these. Creation is the struggle to capture light, line and life with words or with paint.
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Dorian is the professional name of Australian artist and writer Anna Mandoki. Anna has a Diploma in Professional Writing & Editing from RMIT Melbourne, and has completed a VCA short course in Painting Techniques. She has previously lived in London and Budapest, and now lives and creates on Wurundjeri woi wurrung country in Naarm (Melbourne), Australia.
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A constant theme in Anna's work is the experience of migration and ideas of home. Her multi-layered paintings incorporate textures of soil, photographs, sand and paint to create emotionally expressive works evoking echoes of place, memory and time.
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For information about Anna's writing and books, please visit her dedicated website: annamandokiwords.com.


Painting Awards
2023 Bluethumb Art Prize - Finalist
2022 Percival Portrait Painting Prize - Finalist
2022 Southern Buoy Studios Portrait Prize - Finalist