MONA CASEY Mona Casey works in a variety of media. Her work plays with ideas of reproduction and the disposability of art-works through photography, television, and the media. Taking on board the occurrence of the proliferation of images she explores the notion of our apprehension of the artwork through reproduction and our removal from its production and physicality through the photographic and digital process. For the last two years Casey has been working on a series of digital prints titled, Misdemeanours and Regurgitations. She appropriates images of famous paintings from glossy table top books, which present collections of art historical paintings and condense the history of art into works best know by the collective consciousness. Paintings she has worked include Casper David Friedrich’s Traveller looking over a sea of fog and Manet’s Olympia. In Casey’s version of Traveller…, she has digitally erased the figure, revealing the entire sublime scene of mountains and fog, which previously the traveller alone was witness to. In an image of Stubbs’s Grey Horse, she manipulates the scene allowing the horse to walk off the stage of the painting, so that all we are left with is the horse’ rear as it leaves. Using digital processes, she repaints and invents areas of the scene previously covered by the original artist’s figure or subject and allows us to see the set and narrative in a new way. Through manipulation and re-presentation, Casey questions the critical moment or event that makes a painting ‘great’. | 
