Details

Object type

digital print on aluminium

Title

MUD

Artist/Maker

Rachel Mimiec maker

Place Associated

Glasgow, Scotland (place made)

Date

2013

Materials

ink, aluminium

Dimensions

framed: 1103 mm x 1672 mm x 70 mm

Description

MUD is a digital print on aluminium by Glasgow-based artist Rachel Mimiec. Originally made for her exhibition PLOUGH at the Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA) in 2013 it is an example of her interest in collage, appropriation and paint. Using images from National Geographic magazines she paints the surface with oil paints and then gauges or ‘ploughs’ the surface to reveal abstractions of the original image. She then photographs or digitally scans these images to play with scale, abstraction and mark making.

By working over glossy, carefully composed and often dramatic images of landscape with oil paint, which in the case of MUD is a sludgy brown colour painted then scraped back to reveal fragments of a landscape, Mimiec leaves ghost traces of real landscapes within her work. By rotating the orientation of the original image and enlarging the digital scan of the painted work we lose sense of where we are in the landscape. At the time of making MUD Mimiec was interested in Victorian notions of the sublime in the Scottish landscape, the paintings of Horatio McCulloch and looking at ways of subverting a cliched reading of the Scottish Highlands as remote, untouched and grandiose. MUD actively gauges the surface of the photographed land hinting at the human exploitation of our natural resources.

Credit Line/Donor

Bought by Glasgow Museums, 2023

ID Number

PR.2023.4.3

Location

In storage