Andy McCready

Dunedin artist Andy McCready likes the detail side of her work, being meticulous, line rather than form and working on one section at a time. Her style was liberated after discovering illustration-based work and realising that this was where her passion lay.

Using a combination of acrylic, pencil and spraypaint on wallpaper and board, the original works from which the prints are taken are part drawing, part painting, with an emphasis on patterning and detail.

Andy’s works are printed on Epson Watercolour art paper using archival quality inks. Some finishing is achieved with gold detailing, painted by hand, with gilding wax.

I’m interested in exploring the transience of beauty, the construction of identity through the piecing together of fragments, the decorative, interior decorating as something we also do to ourselves (makeup, renovation, DIY, creating facades or masks), the feminine, the fantastic.