Although Karin 'Mamma' Andersson's paintings are technically adventurous and formally inventive, they are most distinctive in their evocative moods and puzzling narratives. Many of her apparently straightforward images are actually complex, often making reference to other
painters, both past and present, to films, music, and ideas. Her pictures are intimate, but their warmth is coloured by doubt and an underlying sense of anxiety. Sometimes her depictions of everyday Swedish life are transformed, before our eyes, into a dark and visionary world. Mamma Andersson, one of Sweden’s best-known artists, represented her country at the Venice Biennale in 2003; she was included in the 2005 Carnegie International and held a major retrospective at the Moderna Museet in Stockholm in 2007. This is her first solo exhibition in Ireland. This exhibition opens on 31st January and runs until 18th March in The Douglas Hyde Gallery.