Mary Evans

Mary Evans (born 1963) is an international artist known for her silhouetted representations of the human form. Mary’s practice explores the social, political, geographical, and historical frameworks of diaspora, migration, and global exchange. Working primarily with brown kraft paper and other disposable materials, she creates large-scale, research-led installations that interrogate sites, stories, and questions of place and belonging. Her work examines the power relationships between Africa and Europe, moving between the real and imagined to map the ephemeral and the unmappable. Drawing on the silhouette, a familiar European visual device, she renders the Black body visible as a site for narratives of resilience, mobility, geography, and memory.