2025 Mullins Conceptual Photography Prize

Body Drawing 5

Kathy Mackey

Body Drawing 5, 2025 digital photographic print on Hahnemühle photo rag paper 90 x 90 cm

In this work, I continue to explore similarities and differences between analogue and digital mark making using paper, light and the human form.
I am interested in how the gesture of the limbs of the body become part of drawn imaginary landscape.
This research manipulates the original artworks through folding and lighting around the body – harnessing shadows and refractions onto the human skin which add more sculptural elements to the original drawings.