OPENING EVENT | Odessa Mahony-de Vries 'Unbound'

marks a significant milestone for emerging artist Odessa Mahony-de Vries, whose large-scale abstract paintings have gained attention for their physical, process-driven approach to mark making.

An Opening Event will be held on Friday 8 May, from 6 – 8pm with the artist in attendance.

*All events are free, no RSVP required.

Based on the Sunshine Coast, Mahony-de Vries is part of a new generation of Queensland artists exploring abstraction through material experimentation and embodied process. In 2025 Mahony-de Vries was a finalist in the Redland Art Prize and the Stanthorpe Art Prize in 2024.

Working intuitively, Mahony-de Vries builds her compositions through pouring, scraping and reworking paint to create surfaces that shift between control and unpredictability.

“I’m interested in letting go of control,” says Mahony-de Vries. “I want the work to surprise me—there’s a point where it starts to feel slightly out of my hands.”

The resulting works carry visible traces of their making, with earlier marks partially revealed beneath successive layers.

Her practice is rooted in responsiveness, where every new element is both an echo of what came before and an invitation to what might emerge next.

Her work invites viewers to witness not just the final image but the evolving process that brought it into being.

Know what’s Happening Next — before everyone else does.

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Host or Publisher Mitchell Fine Art, Fortitude Valley