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, with new ideas continually unfolding.

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 a presence with epic implications. Later, the work engaged 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 are created using found images that have been digitally modified and traced multiple times. 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 two adjacent colours are the same. In this systematic approach, foreground and background are indistinguishable, creating a non-hierarchical colour distribution - a transcendental mathematics through painting. A second series, Vessels, uses the Venn Diagram as a self-directed approach to making paintings. While 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