Exhibition at the Star Gallery in Lewes

Star Brewery Gallery is pleased to host a solo exhibition of oil paintings and figurative sculptures by Sarah Money. The Sussex artist’s work is characterised by loose, dynamic forms that emphasise the combined qualities of movement, texture and colour

Sculpture and the human body

Throughout her adult life Sarah Money has performed in physical theatre and contemporary dance. She studied Dance with Visual Practice at the University of `Brighton under Liz Agiss, and she has taught Pilates for 20 years. This closeness to movement and the workings of the human body are evident in her sculptural practice.

Rhythm, movement and the evocation of emotion through body language are the motivations behind her practice. While her portrait heads are created directly from the model, her figures emerge from observational life drawing and her imagination. She uses heavy-grogged clay and once the pieces have been hollowed out, they are biscuit-fired, then stone-fired and glazed or painted. The use of turquoise is inspired by the artist’s travels to Arizona, spending time within the Navaho community.

Colour

Other colours reflect her interest in the aesthetics of antiquity: “like the figures have been unearthed, or they have been underwater for a long time.” Money’s paintings have an equally physical presence. She uses a palette knife, and even her fingers, to load paint onto the canvas, repeatedly scraping back and adding more layers. This produces an energetic and vivid impasto. The process is a wholly intuitive one: these are not still life flowers, but what she describes as “the idea of a flower” conjured from memory and imagination.

She lives in the village of Chiddingly and works from two idyllically situated studios – one for sculpting, one for painting – surrounded by the flora that infuse and animate her luminous canvases.

Sarah Money’s work is held in private collections in the UK and the US.

Sarah Money | Oil and Stone 10 - 19 June 2022
Star Brewery Gallery
Castle Ditch Lane, (off Fisher Street)
Lewes
East Sussex
BN7 1YJ

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Castle Ditch Lane
Lewes
East Sussex
BN7 1YJ