More Heed - Timed Auction

Beginning as catharsis and a space to explore a less controlled relationship to the pen, the two drawing works featured in this exhibition are from the collection of ‘Studies in Sadness’. Created using layers of paint, pen & pencil to build depth, lines becoming craved into the paint & paper, with raw edges & rounded figures radiating longing and vulnerability. Using expressive line work, textual mark-making & frames-within-frames, the drawings’ invite the viewer into the larger figures’ solitude, their place to be sensitive without fear.

Liberty Antonia Sadler is an artist & filmmaker based in London, working with mediums of drawing, text and moving image to explore issues of body politics, with a focus on the experience of living in a fat queer body. Working within a personal-political context, Liberty Antonia uses characters, radical softness & raw playfulness to discuss themes of size, vulnerability, abjection, queerness, ‘femininity’, food & the erotic. Liberty Antonia’s multidisciplinary practice includes first person performance, figurative drawing and poetry; with artworks exploring, at times, provocative issues such as fatphobia, disordered eating, toxic cis/heteronormativity, fetish & body dysmorphia.

Liberty Antonia is an Associate Lecturer on Performance: Design & Practice at Central Saint Martins & is the founder of MicroActs, London, an ongoing artist film screening series bringing an international selection of shorts to the capital. Their research explores the power of subjectivity within art practice and representation of fat bodies in arts & media.

Education [+ Awards]:
BA[Hons] Performance Design & Practice, Central Saint Martins, graduated 2015, Winner of the 2015 Lowe NOVA Award
MA Fine Art, Chelsea College of Arts, graduated 2016

Selected Exhibitions:
Liberty Antonia Sadler’s work has been shown both in the UK & internationally, including Spantzo Gallery [New York City, USA], where she is currently represented. Liberty Antonia’s work has been featured at Whitechapel Gallery [London, UK], Barbican [London, UK], ICA [London, UK],  BFI Southbank [London, UK], HOME [Manchester, UK], Centre for Contemporary Arts CCA [Glasgow, UK], Anthology Film Archives [New York City, USA], in Queer Art(ists) Now [London, UK] & CINEMQ [Shanghai, China]. Their work has been featured in publications such as NYLON, Polyester Zine, The Fat Zine, Dazed Beauty, Shades of Noir, Metro.co.uk & WomenCinemakers.

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