In an ongoing process of investigation and growth, Mann’s practice conjures dilated environments, which beckon like portals to another world. Lush and full, Mann likens her paintings to mazes or gateways, encouraging dreamlike detours and a pleasurable lostness. Eschewing the perspectival sweep of a typical vista, her work creates balanced ecosystems through the aggregation of small elements, material and visual incongruity and layered substrates.

Originally trained as a traditional sumi ink painter, Mann’s practice works within and against both Chinese and Western landscape pictorial traditions, conjuring spaces of surprising collation and confluence. Within Transit, a new mosaic work, Mann choreographs a dance between materials, merging glass, ceramic, stone and found object mosaic with rice paper and acrylic collage. Layering and combining, among other elements, mosaic and traditional sumi ink painting on rice paper, Mann encourages a conversation between these two ancient, yet contrasting mediums. Challenging and combining perspectival and material approaches, Mann’s inventive spaces offer visions of fantastic incongruity, a disparate and unpredictable celebration of fragmentation.