While Karin 'Mamma' Andersson's paintings are technically adventurous and formally inventive, they are most distinctive in their evocative moods and puzzling narratives. Many of her apparently straightforward images are actually complex, often making reference to other painters, both past and present, to films, music, and ideas.

Her paintings are intimate, but their warmth is coloured by doubt and an underlying sense of anxiety. Sometimes her depictions of everyday Swedish life are transformed, before our eyes, into a dark and visionary world.

Mamma Andersson is one of Sweden's best known artists, and although her work was included in our group show, 'Huts', in 2004, this is her first solo exhibition in Ireland. She represented her country at the Venice Biennale in 2003, was included in the 2005 Carnegie International, and held a major retrospective at the Moderna Museet in Stockholm in 2007.

The Douglas Hyde Gallery warmly thanks the artist, Stephen Friedman Gallery, David Hubbard, and Hanna Schouwink for their help in arranging this exhibition.

A catalogue, including a text by Declan Long, accompanies this exhibition.