Andrew Mackenzie :: Ground Lines

We are delighted to present Andrew Mackenzie’s fourth solo exhibition with the gallery. This new body of work continues his exploration of landscape, memory, and the ways in which we map and shape our relationship with the land.

In drawings and blueprints, a ground line is the baseline that represents the ground level or floor plane, and the word ‘geometry’ literally means ‘measured land’.

The show builds on the artist’s formative memories of his dad’s use of orange twine and pegs to ‘draw’ a space on the ground before building, mapping out the foundation of a future structure in diagrammatic form: an imagined human space. Based on places frequently visited near his home, the paintings play on the painted ground and the space afforded by the field of the painting. They combine observed and imagined landscapes by layering coloured painted line drawings over, between, and through natural forms. They respond empirically to a sense of place while providing visions of the ghosts of possible futures.