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 and writing 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 a pan-disciplinary approach through recent developments in text-based and digital artwork.

I make art and write to create a place where I can exist honestly and vulnerably, explore the nature of being and consciousness and feel a sense of belonging and connectedness to the 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 a pan-disciplinary approach to ideas about representation. Recent work responds to the death of the image and the post-representational transcendental turn brought about by the loss of meaning and crisis in a climate-changing world.

The Horizons painting and drawing works have been created using found images that are digitally simplified and traced multiple times onto paper. This creates a map-like web of abstract shapes, with the originals hidden in a forest of post-representational visual noise. The paintings are then painted using a colour map theorem so that no adjacent colours are the same - a systematic approach to placing the colours where foreground and background are indistinguishable. A second series, Vessels, uses the Venn Diagram as a self-directed approach to making paintings and text works Cantos, based on notebooks collected between 2014 and 2024, reframe the text as a non-rhyming stream-of-consciousness prose poem meandering through thoughts about meaning and process, crisis and loss, creativity and politics.

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