Convergence 1
Collection:UAL Art Collection
Date: 2020
Artist: Sarah Arsenault (British-Canadian)
Dimensions:
183 x 61 x 4cm
Medium: Acrylic and ink on canvas
Object number: UAC 1003
DescriptionSarah studied MA Fine Art: Painting at Camberwell College of Arts. She says:
'I consider myself to be a contemporary abstract painter who explores human ecology. I am interested in my relationships with the social, built, and natural environments that I experience, and the observations discovered through those engagements. My work responds to how these encounters shape my view of the world. There is always a directional influence or a mapping characteristic that permeates my work. Placement of gesture, line, colour, and pattern manipulate the viewer’s eye. I do not depict my experiences chronologically, but rather how different experiences inform, impact, and relate to each other. I create abstracted topographies drawing from memory, photographs, plein air studies, found objects and organic material. My work is heavily grounded in my concern for the natural environment and influenced by contemporary landscape painting'.
'I consider myself to be a contemporary abstract painter who explores human ecology. I am interested in my relationships with the social, built, and natural environments that I experience, and the observations discovered through those engagements. My work responds to how these encounters shape my view of the world. There is always a directional influence or a mapping characteristic that permeates my work. Placement of gesture, line, colour, and pattern manipulate the viewer’s eye. I do not depict my experiences chronologically, but rather how different experiences inform, impact, and relate to each other. I create abstracted topographies drawing from memory, photographs, plein air studies, found objects and organic material. My work is heavily grounded in my concern for the natural environment and influenced by contemporary landscape painting'.