Mandy Coppes Martin is a South African visual artist currently based in Stroud, UK. Her work seeks to confront the transient nature of time and its influence on the fragile natural world around us. Through the delicate reconstruction of natural forms, Martin creates a narrative that reflects upon the fleeting beauty of the natural world. Martin's work offers an insight into the shifting essence of life, making time tangible by emphasising the impermanence of the natural world. Ultimately, her artwork both celebrates and interrogates the mutable aspects of nature, bringing to life moments that are both fleeting and beautifully fragile.

Working primarily with natural fibres, Mandy Coppes Martin creates ethereal drawings, sculptures and installations that depict an action once taken or a life once lived. She retraces the past and, in turn, creates a new skeleton of memories. Weaving materials such as hemp, sisal, cotton, silk, silver foils, tree resins, and even fish bones and industrial knitting needles, her works can be seen as thin pieces of reconstituted time⸺time that has no direct relevance to today, but that can still be reimagined.

The ethereal nature of Mandy Coppes Martin's work represents the delicate space in which we as humans find ourselves: the space that exists between denial and inability to react, and between acceptance and the ability to take responsibility.The transparency of Mandy Coppes Martin's work, as well as the shadows that fall from the images, completes and solidifies the relationship that exists between the work, the environment, and the viewer. and the relationship that exists between the viewer.

Prior to pursuing her art professionally, she was a creative product developer and programme manager for several outreach initiatives in Mozambique, Botswana, and her native South Africa. Her love of paper and natural fibres led her to Japan, Holland, Germany, Belgium and the Philippines to study endemic techniques and expand the scope of her practice. She has exhibited internationally and her work can be found in several private and corporate collections, including Rand Merchant Bank, Absa Group, and Sasol.