Home Thumbnail page
Previous image Next image
grew
Sarah Grew
Mistletoe, 2017
cyanotype on Lanaquarelle paper
image 6x6

The core focus of my art practice centers on representing and interrogating concepts of time and temporality, which means I am engaged in the challenge of visually expressing a range of phenomena that encompass past, present and future, as well as our sense of how to define existence. The co-presence of these different temporal registers conveys a fullness of time I represent through paintings and photographs built in layers, like a palimpsest, using a variety of techniques. I sometimes describe my process as the art equivalent of the slow food movement and like a chef combining ingredients in new ways, I experiment by using unusual substrates, uncommon methods of applying the paint to the ground, and even processes such as incorporating alternative photographic printing and etching into the work to create multilayered abstract paintings.