about.
The work of Sarah Holland uses abstraction and manipulation of her medium, to mirror the complexities of nature and female mental health. Her body of work comprises of abstracted landscapes, natural forms and female portraiture.
Combining her work as a ceramacist, Sarah takes inspiration from the elements and earth such as sand, clay, salt, metal, water and manipulates them with acrylic and ink to create abstract works that echoe her ceramic projects. These works celebrate the layers and compressions of the earth built up over millions of years to create a vast and complex landscape.
This is not just a celebration of creation and evolution, but also a metaphor for the mental health impact from years of compression, oppression, solitude and labour women have experienced. Although these works are born out of hers, and other female experiences, they are meant as a moment of validation and solidarity for anyone who has felt controlled or silenced.
In her previous portraiture work, she uses techniques such as disrupted realism. With this she is able to capture the female experience visually, by drawing in the eye but confusing the mind. This painterly technique is a metaphor for the contradictions of society and the chaos in expectation verses reality.
In all her work Sarah emphasises the idea of a veiled or a filtered reality being exposed and retold on canvas.
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