Sarah Fordyce: 'Green Gaze'

Sarah Fordyce: 'Green Gaze'  2022.

Oil on linen, 38 x 51cm

website: sarahfordyce.com
instagram: @sarahjanefordyce

Sarah Fordyce’s practice is centred around drawing and painting, where she explores interactions between mystery, place, and the everyday. She is interested in the way darkness disrupts the familiar, opening up the imagination and new ways of seeing. A full moon in the backyard, someone preparing dinner, or the garden at night – Sarah’s work seeks the wildness that dwells beside or behind the intimate. Her oil paintings have rich colour set amongst animated shadows, with slippery brushstrokes straddling the space between attention to detail and looser movement. A layered process of photography, drawing, and gouache painting informs the work. Since graduating from Curtin University with a Bachelor of Fine Art, Sarah has shown in numerous solo exhibitions around Australia, most recently as part of the Clayton Utz Partnership with 3:33 Art Projects. In 2023 Sarah was selected for Works On Paper 5 with Blue Shop Cottage in London. She had solo exhibitions with A.K Bellinger Gallery in 2021 and 2022, and has shown in group exhibitions with A.K Bellinger Gallery, Divisions Gallery, and Rubicon ARI. Sarah has been a finalist in the Len Fox Painting Award and in 2019 was the recipient of the Small Projects Grant.