MANDA LANE
Artist Bio:
Manda Lane is a Melbourne-based botanical artist, known for her intricate murals, paper installations, and laneway pasteups.
Practicing out of Everfresh Studios in Collingwood, she is inspired by the local untamed urban weeds in her immediate environment, as well as native Australian flora.
Using plants as her main subject matter, she is interested in the uneasy relationships between plants and the built world, and the ways nature pushes back against human-made - vines growing around aged brickwork, weeds sprouting through cracks, tree roots breaking through footpaths. This highlights how nature isn't passive; it resists, reclaims, and persists.
Manda wants to emphasise how plants and cities exist in constant tension sometimes in conflict, sometimes in coexistence. Her work invites people to notice these overlooked ecologies and consider how nature continues to reshape urban environments and vice versa.
Her papercut work has seen her commissioned for a variety of projects in recent years, including artwork for the Ritz Carlton Hotel, Visit Victoria, sculptural public art opportunities with Merri-bek Council, gallery exhibitions and private collections. Manda's work also includes murals, where she regularly handpaints florals, exploring ways to depict plants climbing up and across surfaces. Her murals usually feature intensely tangled detail coupled with larger botanical features, playfully depicting nature at different scales interacting with the surfaces they are painted on.
This mural work has seen her commissioned by the National Gallery of Victoria to paint for the 2022 Architectural Commission, as well as for Dorsett Hotel Melbourne, Metro Tunnel, local councils and numerous private commissions in Victoria and NSW.
Artwork Title:
Unyielding
Artwork Statement:
A mural that integrates papercut pasteups, bringing together multiple sides of my dual art practice. Exploring themes aligned with my work about nature taking over and reclaiming space, and the beauty in giving space for things to grow organically in life.
Artwork Created:
Live at the 2026 Street Art Studio, in conjunction with the Frankston Street Art Festival
Medium:
Acrylic and Aerosol on 3mm structured ply panel.
Size:
Size 84.1cm (h) x 59.4cm (w) x 3mm (d)
