Zali McMahon is an artist and architectural designer from Tamaki Makaurau Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand. Her practice primarily involves slow glazed oil paintings which arise from an iterative drawing practice grounded in theoretical research and observational drawing. Stemming from her background in architectural education, her work commences with site specific research, which extends into multi-media drawing and writing. This visual research is then melted and reformed into the final oil paintings. Interrogations into the nature of perception, Western landscape painting, the sublime and melancholic, and embodied material relationships, underlie recent practice.
