about.
Sarah's work explains elements of mental health as well as the female experience. Drawing on her own experiences as well as the stories of others, she creates visual art explaining emotions or events that for one reason or another have been veiled or silenced. Her body of work currently comprises of female portraiture and abstracted landscapes / natural forms.
Sarah's portrait work takes figurative forms and abstracts them using disrupted realism. This painterly technique is a metaphor for the contradictions of society and the chaos in expectation verses reality. One collection of portraits titled "The Lost Girls" looks at the female struggle with adult ADHD and other mental health issues. The second collection titled "Riot Girls" looks at the truths of female musicians and their response to and oppressive and toxic culture. The two collections are connected by the artists research into feminist and gender theory, feminist psychoanalysis as well as exploring art made by feminist artists in response to patriarchal stereotypes. The work is exposing female behaviour in response to the environment.
In her landscapes and natural forms, Sarah is looking at her time spent in nature and the effect that has had on her mental health. Thinking of the female embodiment of nature, life giving, eternal cycles of death and rebirth, and the complex chaos in its order and beauty. She pays close attention to small over-looked aspects, and abstracts or simplifies them, to reveal the repetition of their design.
In all her work Sarah emphasises the idea of a veiled or a filtered reality being exposed and retold through painterly technique and a little bit of drama.
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Instagram: @sarah_holland_art