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Sara Willett
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Degree: Fine Art
University: Camberwell College of Art
Graduation Year: 2002
New Blood Art Statement
Willett’s paintings are visually mesmerizing, tonal paintings that emerge from what seems like an endearing and hopeful obsessive compulsion – a visual ambiguity is manifest. The finished effect is like watching continually moving shoals of fish or swarming insects. Sara Willett’s paintings are held in collections in the UK and throughout the world, and her work has been featured in A-N magazine.
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Artist Statement
The most recent series of paintings – SHADOWEBS - is directly informed by the immersive, large scale installations of forest like environments that I create from crocheted elastic. The webs themselves act as a form of template to the paintings - reversing the negative spaces, playing with the stability of the viewing experience, the ‘in’ and the ‘out’ and the disruption and saturation of the colour field. The results can be interpreted in a variety of ways; as micro-biological forms, as cosmic entities or sci-fi journeys. Both playful and serious they stand alone or as a series, each one unique.The current paintings and installations are a continuation of my investigations into the potential of the visually decorative in the plastic arts to cause various forms of optical or psychological disturbances. The body of work I name the GAUGED series, looks at of the possibilities of tracing rhythm and movement through the excavation of a surface. Working with ideas around fluidity, control and boundaries, I begin with boards to which layers of paint are applied and then systematically gauged to reveal concentric circles of colour. The aesthetic judgments are made primarily at the layering stage; what emerges during the physical process of excavation is largely fortuitous. The process creates an enticing, surface of repetitive, convex hollows that confuse the eye and trick the brain. The finished works are both complicated and simple, leaving space for the intensity of the making experience to manifest itself visually.
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Solo Shows
2012, Kunstformen der Poundland ii, Deptford X
2011, Ligeia Deptford X, main programme, London
2010, Psychidea, Tinpitch Art at Ganapati, London
2010, Arabesque, Arthouse Gallery, London
2008, One Fine Day, Beverley Knowles Fine Art, London (joint)
2007, Excavaton, The Flea Pit Gallery, London
2005, Recent Work, The Shed Gallery, Norwich
Selected Group Shows
2012, A Smile Spreading Slowly, hArts Lane Gallery, London
2010, Down to Earth, Arthouse Gallery, London
2011, Kunstformen der Poundland – MA Degree Show, Camberwell College of Art
2011, The Gasworks Project, Gasworks Gallery, London
2011, Saturation, Arthouse Gallery, London
2011, Jamworks, The Jam Factory, London
2010, Big Society, Space Station 65, London
2010, Bedizzened, APT Gallery, London (also joint curator),
2010, South London Women Artists, Bankside Gallery, London
2010, Near Dark, Camberwell College of Art, London
2010, Be Careful What You Wish For, Space Station 65, London
2010, Objects of Love, The Arthouse Gallery, London
2010, Art Bin, The South London Gallery, London
2009, New Blood Artists, New Blood Art, London,
2008, Friends Exhibition, Dulwich Art Gallery, London
2008, Mark of Action, The Arthouse Gallery, London
2007, Sugar in Mi Tea, Arthouse Gallery, London
2007, Jamworks, The Jam Factory, London
2006, 20/20, Beverley Knowles Fine Art, London
2005, Beadale Street, Beverley Knowles Fine Art, London
2004, Circle’s Edge, The Greenspace Gallery, London (joint)
2004, The Shed Show, Shed Gallery, Norwich 2004
2003, Sounds of the Suburbs, Woodlands Gallery, London
2003, First Wave, Kingly Court Gallery, London
2003, Photocall, The Centenary Gallery, London
2003, Art London, Beverley Knowles Fine Art, London
2002, The Next Big Thing, The Gallery in Cork Street, London
2002, Future Map, The London Institute Gallery, London
2001, C6, House Gallery, London