Lottie Mac

Lottie’s practice as an interdisciplinary artist considers the fluidity of language and fonts. Mac plays with silence and that which is said and also unsaid. Fluidity in visual form is echoed in the changeability of meaning and intention in language reflected in her practice. Exploring ways of communication and providing moments of reflection are crucial to Mac. Lottie’s practice is responsive, responding to feeling, music, and environment, and this is too seen in the materials used.

Physical movement in making is critical to Lottie’s practice, as seen through her large-scale Tufting, expressive paintings, and sculptures. The importance of phsyical movement is echoed in Lottie’s relationship with jazz music, this being seen through her most expressive painting series which are visual and phsyical embodiments
and responses to jazz music.

While being an immensely personal practice, Lottie's work is also responsive to socio-political connections to language. The exploration of the Irish language and its relationship to English, through the loss of mother tongue, is reminiscent of the loss of articulation and visual form in the words seen in Lottie’s practice.