In addition to personal life experiences, Mamma Andersson draws on a number of other sources for her paintings, including northern landscape painting of the 19th and 20th century, interiors from forensic investigations and scenes from theatre brochures.
The shift from meticulous attention to detail to gestural and abstract work lends the paintings an uncannily suggestive power. Thus, the portrayal of an everyday walk becomes a family drama, a children’s room is revealed as a place of loneliness and destruction. The artist is concerned at all times with life in its entirety: a reflection of the contemporary human condition.

Biography
1962 born in Luleå, Sweden
1986–1993 Kungliga Konsthögskolan (Royal Institute of Art), Stockholm
lives and works in Stockholm