Misdemeanours and Regurgitations

Digital image series

Mona Casey’s work plays with ideas of the reproduction and disposability of art-works through photography, television, and the media.

Misdemeanours and regurgitations is a salon-style installation and developing collection of digitally manipulated images of pre 20th Century paintings. Casey works with famous and iconic paintings in art history, such as Casper David Friedrich’s Traveller looking over a sea of fog and David’s The Death of Marat. In Casey’s version of Traveller…, she has digitally erased the figure, revealling the view, previously obscured, the mountains and fog beyond. Through manipulation and re-presentation, Casey questions the critical moment or event that makes a painting ‘great’. The work also engages with the painted image as stage, in which models, the subject, or ‘players’ to use a Shakesperean metaphor play and reside.

However, despite the mechanical manipulation of images, there is an investigation of the use of the human touch through re-painting or re-drawing through digital means.

Mona Casey, Arctic Shipwreck, After Frederich, Digital Print on paper, Various Sizes

Mona Casey, The Baptism, After Corot, Digital print on newsprint

Mona Casey, Slaughter of the Innocence, After Brueghel, Digital print on paper, various sizes

Mona Casey, The Artist Studio, After Vermeer, Digital Print, various sizes

Mona Casey, After Vermeer, Digital Print on paper, various sizes

Mona Casey, The Swing, After Fragonard, Digital Print, Various sizes

Mona Casey, The Traveller, After Frederich, Digital Print, Various sizes

Mona Casey, The Haywain, After Constable, digital print on paper

Mona Casey, White Horse Exits, After Stubbs, digital print on paper, various sizes

Mona Casey, Ophelia, After Millais, digital print on paper, Various sizes

Installation shots

Misdemenours & Regurgitations, Colony, Birmingham

(Image with TV) Mise en scene, Showroom MAMA, Rotterdam, The Netherlands