Bind
Sarah Longworth-West
2019, 60 x 42 cm, Oil paint on pigmented gesso panel
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Sarah Longworth-West
2019, 60 x 42 cm, Oil paint on pigmented gesso panel
Artwork description
In her work, the artist takes us to a dystopian imaginary full of evaporated sensations and diluted colors that make up a dream like perspective w here the protagonists of the works mix with the background. The ambiguity of the figures is framed by the colors of the landscape w here references to specific places are barely existent.
Only some objects are objectively represented as collage cutouts that are interspersed with sensations left by memories. In her paintings, the artist manages an entire imaginary around a concept and what it represents in different situations. In "Bind" we observe traces of what a chair resembles with what we mentally associate with a confinem ent and lack of freedom. However, the constant juxtaposition of opposites is what makes us reflect beyond the pure concept adding shapes that are reminiscent of mountainous landscapes or flowers wild.
Sarah Longworth-West
Born and raised in London, Sarah Lonworth-West has acquired a long connaissance in Fine Arts thanks to her degree and masters at the University of Newcastle and Slade School of Fine Art. Her artistic career has led her to international fame from international exhibition in Haghzou, China or New York.
Exhibition history
Solo Exhibitions
2014
Remnants, Aldeburgh LOOKOUT, Suffolk, UK
2012
Temporary Surfaces, duo-show with Sarah Bowker-Jones, Surface Gallery, Nottingham *
2012
Recline, LEDGE, London
2010
Everyone's looking at ME, KUBE, Poole
Selected Group Exhibitions
2017
Forthcoming
Merge Visible curated by Charley Peters, Contemporary British Painting, London
2016
The Garden of Forking Paths, Lewisham Art House, London
2015
East/West, IMPACT 9 International Print conference, The China Academy of Arts, Hangzhou, China
hundreds and thousands, Lubomirov / Angus Hughes, London
A5, Lubomirov-Easton, Platform Projects @ Art-Athina, Athens, Greece
2014
The Trouble with Painting Today, Pump House Gallery, London. Curated by Hannah Conroy
Saloney, Embassy Gallery Members' show, Edinburgh
2013
Print , Woburn Centre, UCL, London
Sluice Art Fair, London *
Q-Art, APT Gallery, London
Shelf Life, xvi collective, Leytonstone Library, London
Fringe Arts Bath, Officiers Club, Bath
Anonymous Drawing, Galerie Nord/Kunstverein Tiergarten, Berlin, Germany
Toured to Temporary Art Centre (TAC), Netherlands
Tasty Modern, Schwartz Gallery, London
Aniamamus: A Living Gallery, Coohaus, Chelsea, New York, USA
Defcon Salon, Embassy Gallery Members' show, Edinburgh
Awards and Residencies
2014
a-n The Artists' Information Company. Re:View Bursary 2014
Aldeburgh Beach LOOKOUT, Caroline Wiseman Residency
2012
Jerwood Painting Fellowship - Shortlisted - Selected by Marcus Harvey, Mali Morris RA and Fabian Peake
ALAS Summer Residency, Matt Roberts Arts, London
