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.
Dorian is the professional name of Australian artist and writer Anna Mandoki. Dorian 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 Melbourne/Naarm, Australia.
A constant theme in Dorian'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.
For information about Anna's writing and books, please visit her dedicated website: annamandokiwords.com.
Painting Awards
2022 Percival Portrait Painting Prize - Finalist
2022 Southern Buoy Studios Portrait Prize - Finalist