Sarah crowEST

Sarah crowEST
British/Australian, born 1957; lives and works in Naarm/Melbourne

Leaves unbothered 2021
synthetic polymer paint on linen
Courtesy of the artist and LON Gallery, Naarm/Melbourne

Artist statement:

A jazz-vocal refrain plays in my mind `…the falling leaves drift by the window and I miss you most of all my darling….'

In painting (as in life) I inhabit and move through phases of order and chaos. A dynamic emerges where shapes and rhythms fall in and out of methodical sequence or flex to accommodate one another. Here my aspiration toward a clear, systematic mode of working is evident through the black, rectilinear glyphs. These evolve from idioms or phrasing I find in sound and architecture and are parts of an ongoing language that shifts and expands. These crisp, hard-edged shapes contrast with the appliquéd `leaves' that meander insouciantly across the fluidly rendered surface. These linen slivers are unbothered, free (yet they are fiercely attached with concentrated stitches). They are not leaving.