A facilitator of experimental and improvisatory dialogue, Mandy Roger’s work has roots in the traditions of drawing, and many years of working as a therapist. She explores the way language and identity straddle past and present. Interested in how we continually recreate ourselves and our stories within a cultural context, Rogers believes in keeping dialogue open as a form of creative resistance to a world, which she sees as increasingly polarised

The Feeling and Calving

Born in Nairobi, she moved to the U K when she was seven years old. Since then art has been a constant resource for reflecting on identity, separation and cultural change, all of which have been central to her art, and her practice as a psychotherapist.

Having recently ventured into writing, FRAGMENT is an opportunity to explore a relationship between the written and the visual.

Her current work is inspired by ‘The Feeling of What Happens’ a book by the neurologist Antonio Damasio who explores the human body and mind as a self-regulating system. What resonates for Mandy is the relationship between word, image, feeling and consciousness. A relational energy is what she is interested in, across human, non-human; past, present; mind, body; word and image. Assembling fragments of words and images, she hopes to create a fleeting and visceral connection, a narrative, which is extended, regulated and coloured by experience and perception.

Thoughts and Silence

The media shoot darts into them while making love