Daphne Mandel
Anchor Untethered
2025
H 63 x W 90 cm
Mixed media acrylic and collage on paper
Unique
Anchor Untethered is an homage to Hong Kong’s persistence of change and the inevitability of green life. A distant, misty and vaporous landscape, bathed in diaphanous light, recounts Murray House’s origins. The Murray Barracks,
Argyle Street’s pawnshop, Sai Ying Pun Hospital’s chimneys, and the old Bank of China punctuate a dreamlike, forgotten urban horizon to which Murray House once belonged. Luxuriant nature
and vivid, colourful plants reclaim the past and envelop Murray House in its present maritime environment. The work is created uniquely for Design Trust Charity Benefit 2025 at Murray
House, Stanley Plaza responding to the historic site and curatorial theme of the exhibition.
The work is created uniquely for Design Trust Charity Benefit 2025 at Murray House, Stanley Plaza responding to the historic site and curatorial theme of the exhibition. The work has been auctioned off during the Charity Auction on March 22nd 2025 and creatively loaned by the generous bidder for Design Trust Charity Exhibition: Transformational Exceptions.
About Daphne Mandel
Daphné Mandel (French, born 1975) has been living and working in Hong Kong since 2008. She completed her degree of landscape architecture and urban planning in Versailles (France) in 2000. Mandel explores the in-between spaces, the transitional landscapes at the edges of Hong Kong. Her artworks incorporates contemporary digital support and tactile traditional techniques, like painting and collage. This conceptually echoes Hong Kong’s urban aesthetic: one that is a juxtaposition of old and new, heritage and contemporary, derelict and polished. Mandel’s works have been exhibited in shows organized by art institutions including Their Memories (Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong, 2024) Taipei Dangdai (Gallery EXIT, 2024), Art Basel Hong Kong (Gallery EXIT 2022, 2023 and 2024), ART021 (Gallery EXIT 2023, Shanghai), Hong Kong Time Rift (Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong, 2022) & Small is Beautiful XXXIX (Flowers Gallery, London, 2021). Mandel co-founded the Paris based landscape architecture and urban planning firm Gilot & Mandel Paysage. Together with her partner, she was awarded the "Best Young Urban Planning and Landscape Architecture Professionals" by the French Ministry of Culture in 2006.
