Women in Art - Raising the Bar
15 FEBRUARY 2022 - 08 MARCH 2022
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42. Sarah Wills-Brown
Floating Worlds 1
Floating Worlds, 1.
Media: Spray paint, collage, acrylic and experimental printmaking techniques on cradled wooden panel. Unframed.
Size: H: 76cm x W: 60cm x D: 4cm
2021
Signed on back with certificate of authenticity attached
This mixed media painting has evolved from research undertaken on a months’ residency in April 2021, focusing on the exterior spaces of the Denys Wilkinson Building in Oxford. I am interested in the history of a building, referring to archival documents such as promotional literature and photographs to learn about construction techniques and materials. I view the surfaces I create like a visual diary documenting the passing of time. Here texture and colour are used to mimic the effects of light and shadows cast on the materiality of the building’s surfaces. Details combine to create an expression of the fragility and unreliability of memory, and they capture the more transient dynamics of shadow.
ESTIMATE
£750 - 850
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Artist Bio
Sarah Wills-Brown is a UK based artist, with an MFA in Fine Art from Oxford Brookes University. Sarah’s multidisciplinary practice explores the transient dynamics of shadow within architectural environments and the symbolic and metaphorical narratives that these shadows can evoke within the individual. Sculptures and wall based abstract works evolve from her use of shadow shapes as a set of motifs, their surfaces enlivened by glimpses of colour, line, traces of material textures and pattern details. Combining hand drawn and digital elements, spray paint, collage and experimental printmaking, her works form a visual and sensory recollection of a physical presence in these spaces.
Accolades
MFA in Fine Art (Dist) Oxford Brookes University
Current Exhibitions 2022– FRACTURE! (Portable Art Collective, Oxford) –The Old Fire Station, Oxford until 26 Feb. FLUX, Jam Factory, Oxford, 29 Feb to 24 April.
https://www.sarahwillsbrown.co.uk
Instagram: @sarahwillsbrown
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