Sophia Mary Mac

Friendship Morning Tea

2024 300 mm x 300 mm Oil on Board

Today is usually a hard day. It’s a public holiday, so I invite friends to our home for morning tea. Everybody brings something to eat. We all take turns to talk and laugh. The day is less hard. Sophia Mary Mac is a multidisciplinary artist based in the Northern Rivers / on Bundjalung Country. She primarily works with oil paint and fine-line ink drawings. Her work explores visceral memory, using painting as a cathartic process to linger within memories and the passage of time. Sophia aims to highlight the spaces and moments in between, a kind of limbo or mundane purgatory. Her practice invites viewers to reflect on the subtle transitions and quiet interludes that make up our everyday lives.