Mappa Mundi is a series of digital image prints that are inspired by Vicki McConville’s travels in Australia, Italy and Ireland. They explore her enduring interest in the human form and the links between  identity, culture and place. 

Initiated as a photographic series in 1995, the photo images originated in Australia’s Mungo National Park desert. Subsequent images were taken whilst Vicki McConville researched her own cultural heritage (Swiss Italian/Ticino and Irish/Celtic) in Bellinzona, Switzerland and at Lake Como in Italy and Rathfriland and Galway in Ireland. 

Each print is composed of digital image manipulations of large scale mixed media panels. 

The large scale panels were created by hand rendered paintings, collaging photocopies and digital images overlayed with pastel, natural ochres, acrylic paint and shellac. Each panel was then scanned and manipulated to create a series of digital print. 

The Mappa Mundi suite of images was exhibited at Grand Central Gallery Melbourne and later exhibited as part of the Prints Without Borders exhibition in Slovenia, Galleria Zero in Barcelona, Spain, Castlemaine State Festival, the Australia Felix Exhibition, Benalla, at the artists own gallery, Artsville, near Castlemaine, and at the Convent Gallery in Daylesford, Australia.