Image: Build Your Own Horizon at ‘Re:Group - Fragments in Constellation’ exhibition with Uillinn, West Cork Arts Centre and Skibbereen Arts Festival 2022.

This website spans more than thirty years of Sarah Iremonger's visual art practice from the first oil paintings in the early 1990s to the conceptualisation of the work in the late 1990s, site-specific multi-media approach through the 2000s a return to painting since 2014 and recent developments in text-based and digital artwork.

Recent work is a response to the death of the image and the post-representational turn brought about by the loss of meaning in an image-saturated world. Based in Kinsale, Co. Cork, Ireland, early work consisted of large abstract paintings expressing an indefinable presence with epic implications. Later, work engaged with the world through site-specific installations that explored representation.

Found images are adapted to create abstract paintings and drawings Horizons where the original is hidden in a forest of post-representational visual noise. A second series uses Venn Diagrams as a self-directed systematic approach to making paintings Vessels while text-based work Cantos, based on notebooks collected between 2014 and 2024, meandering through thoughts about meaning and process, texts are reframed in the style of an epic, non-rhyming stream-of-consciousness, prose poem.

To view recent work contact Oliver Sears Gallery www.oliversearsgallery.com
+353 (0)1 6449459 / 33 Fitzwilliam St Upper, Dublin 2, Ireland