Mandy El-Sayegh

Mandy El-Sayegh (pronounced el-say-yegg) is a Malaysian-born London-based artist, who forges her layered paintings from pages of the Financial Times and mundane advertisements to Arabic calligraphy. Net-Grid (notice) (2020) belongs to El-Sayegh’s series of Net–Grid paintings, which recall raised-relief maps. The surfaces of the Net-Grid paintings ripple and buckle beneath the weight of their matter – layers of glue and paint, studio rags, newspapers, and printed images from Theresa May to victims of unknown disasters to mundane advertisements.