Sarah Randle
she/her
An Open Door
My paintings explore the intricate relationship between nostalgia, film, repetition and movement, influenced by the films of Andrei Tarkovsky and Ingmar Bergman which evoke compelling emotions and narratives.
The figurations and abstractions intertwine to create a narrative of time past. Our shared social history is important to my research and practice and this body of work portrays the life of childhood innocence against the backdrop of the reality of tenement life. Using the canvas as a film reel, the monochrome collection indicates that the present is haunted by the past and is brought to life through paint, recorded imagery and film. Fragmented abstractions are at play here, a calculated vagueness where there is no definitive.
Tenement existence may be gone but under the same government a new reality has surfaced in our society through high rent, lack of housing and homeless children. As the cogs of time turn, are we now in danger of coming full circle once again?
Mammies, 2024, mixed media on canvas, 100cm x 100cm
Close-up detail of Round the Lamp Post
Close-up detail of In nor Out
Close-up detail of Little Chaps
Round the Lamp Post, 2024, mixed media on canvas, 100cm x 70cm
Little Chaps, 2024, mixed media on canvas, 100cm x 70cm
In nor Out, 2024, mixed media on canvas, 100cm x 70cm
On the Stairs, 2024, mixed media on canvas, 100cm x 70cm
Passage of Time, 2024, mixed media on canvas, 100cm x 100cm