Zali McMahon is an artist and architectural designer from Tamaki Makaurau, Aotearoa New Zealand. Situated within the broad field of contemporary landscape painting, Zali’s work engages with particular environments through an expanded lens that emphasises the immaterial, perceived, and atmospheric.
Stemming from her architectural education, Zali’s practice begins with dedicated site-specific enquiry centred on deep historical research and observational drawing. These studies extend into series of iterative drawing and theoretical analysis before culminating in summative atmospheric oil paintings.
Recent works have interrogated themes of human perception, sublimity and melancholy, embodied material relationships, and the history of Western landscape painting within Aotearoa.
