Graduate of NCAD, Dublin, in Fine Art Painting (2009) and collected by the OPW, Dept of Foreign Affairs, The Central Bank, Arklow Enterprise Centre and many private collectors.
Attracta’s work has been selected for exhibitions in Dublin, Berlin, Dubai, Brussels, Donegal, Wexford, Galway, and Kilkenny.
Attracta is co-founder of ballyrogan.com having spent many enjoyable years developing an art career surrounded by a creative family and peers.
Attracta’s work focuses on concepts of identity and explores the painting process using it to distort, transform, interpret and question. Colour and line are densely layered and interconnected in the paintings as the collection develops, as variations on a singular subject, gathering or image. The painting process is a method of addressing the hidden through the application of paint. Using her own photographic images as source material. By using photographic images as references for the paintings ways of translating the world have been explored. Her way of compartmentalizing or framing an image is influenced by her experiences of working in the film industry.
Manson’s work is influenced on a daily basis by the turmoil of life as we struggle to remain 'in the present'. Systems of living, communicating, or exchange, have become so complex that it takes many teams to support their operations.
The Series ‘ Nature & Nurture’ explores the current climate change, the presence of viruses in nature and in the human population and the fragility of urban living. (no: 1-3) The indigenous Ash Tree is fighting for its life from an imported virus. Ash in the City explores the idea of urban existence with the trials of poverty and homelessness. Painting 5 explores the impact of Nature on humans and vice versa.
