Sarah Barker Brown is a London-based artist with a degree in Classical Studies, and a background in Footwear Design. She graduates from the Art Academy in 2017 where she won the Kennerly Prize for Academic Excellence and the United Society of Artists Bursary. She has recently been selected for the Ruth Borchard Self Portrait Prize 2017.
 

In this work I am exploring my personal connection with ordinary people and their identities, vulnerabilities, imperfections and the search for joy. I employ different painterly languages to elicit different responses and readings about our sexual, social, emotional and ethical lives. Often painted in one intense sitting, and sometimes including a slower, intricate process of collage or transfer, these works reflect my long-held fascination with the homemade and the unpolished. Alongside my desire to offer playfulness and enjoyment, I am deeply curious about ambiguous feelings prompted by exhibitionism, sexuality and transgression. How liberated do any of us really feel?

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