MANDY BOURSICOT
Through geography, ethnicity, and education, Mandy Boursicot is a true child of the marriage of Eastern and Western cultures.
Born in Hong Kong during the late British colonial period to a French father and Macanese mother, she was brought up speaking English, French and Cantonese. Macau, with its unique, hybrid population, the Macanese, claim both Portuguese and Asian ancestry. Incorporating "North American" into her layers of cultural identity has encouraged Boursicot to explore manifestations of multiculturalism and hybridity.
Her work represents the five-century-old fusion of the Orient and the Occident through the portrayal of still life artifacts, incorporating iconic imagery from her international body of experience. Her investigations are in keeping with the harmonic duality of Eurasian culture, through her juxtaposition of eastern and western aesthetics, which in turn are explored through varied complementary dichotomies: naturalistic forms in illusory perspective space set beside planar geometric patterns, tradition and modernity, the decorative and the functional, simplicity and complexity, isolation and interdependence.
She has standing representation at galleries in her home town of Vancouver, in Edmonton and in Calgary, and has exhibited internationally, in London, Geneva, Hong Kong, Macau, Tokyo and Taipei. Her works are included in international collections. Boursicot was profiled on CBC national television in 2003 and in 2004, has been recognized as a prominent New Canadian by the Dominion Institute, and was recently awarded a British Columbia Arts Council Grant.
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