EP 23 : Art 2 HeArt: Sarah Bird, Abstract maze-like compositions of liminal spaces, portals and thresholds, blending the real with the imagined.

Today on the Art Seeker Stories Podcast, I have an Art 2 HeArt with Sarah Bird a contemporary artist and teacher, working in collage , digital and photography, exploring a space between the virtual and real. 

In this episode we chat about the idea of home and how rooms and belongings hold a residue, keeping memories, stories, and traces of human action over time: the layers of paint and wallpaper, or the marks on a bedsheet or folds of a curtain. Sarah’s pictures dance in abstraction and the painterly, in light and dark

 Of her work Sarah says:

'Windows, doorways, and curtains are common motifs that mark the tension between inside and outside, sanctuary and territory. My work depicts maze-like compositions of liminal spaces, portals and thresholds: the points of boundary and change.  The weave of a curtain dissolves into pixels while the view through a window reveals nothing. I use veils of vivid colour, distilled from the distorted pixels themselves, to blend the real with the imagined.' 

 Sarah’s book recommendations are:
The Goldfinch by Donna Tart 
Studio Voices by Michael Bird

We also mention
Succeeding as an Artist by Deborah Henry Pollard @fireworksdhp
& The Creative Habit by Twyla Tharp

 Artists mentioned:
Sain Fan, artist residency at the V&A
Travel Bureau at the White Chapel
Jock McFadyen at the RA
Barbara Kasten at the Tate

You can find out more about Sarah here :
Instagram:  @sj8ird
Website www,sarahbirdart.co.uk