Eileen Mantel is a lens-based Artist who utilises video, self-portraiture, and on-camera performance in the exploration of issues within identity, both personal and social. Using herself as a prop, her work involves observing, mimicking, and recreating behaviours in an attempt to bring to focus their unusual origins and significances. She has spent five months embedded in the Mercer’s Institute for Successful Ageing with the goal of developing Patient-Centred artwork. This has granted her the opportunity to base her work on encounters with complex and unique individuals and to nurture the approach of considering person before patient. She has, therefore, developed a sense for feeding her work by drawing from personal connection and the subtlety of human expression through conversation.

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