Mac Mansfield’s practice within painting focuses mostly on the use of colour and gesture to build paths within a composition. Working them together and then pulling them back with layers of frenetic mark making, creating forms that act like a kind of furniture within the picture plane. 

Mac has an affinity for the line ‘and various ways to tie rope’ that Lou Reed eventually removed from the song Wild Child, feeling that if recontextualised this phrase could express the poetics of this process. 

In 2024 Mac had his first solo exhibition ‘Long days of bad ideas, says the silence’ at Gallery 9, Sydney. Selected group exhibitions include 2023 Brett Whitley Studio, Sydney, Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship Finalist exhibition; IGGY, 2022; The Vase and Flower Show, Sydney 2020; Sydney Contemporary Presents 2020 with the National Art School; Object, Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney 2020; National Art School Graduation Show, 2019; Kicking Up Dust, M2 Gallery, Sydney, 2018. His work is held in the National Art School Collection.