Sarah Biggs
Althea, 2016.
About:
Sarah Biggs’ highly successful debut exhibition Further afield, presented by Barnard Gallery in October 2015, officially introduced viewers to what has proved to be an enduring interest for the artist: the notion of “the field”, and all that it implies – research, observation, record keeping, taxonomy and exploration. In her depictions of various professionals and researchers in their natural environment, Biggs inquires into and makes tangible the state of openness and receptivity that underscores all modes of enquiry. Her paintings are records of the record keepers, observations of the observers, bringing the often disparate fields of science and art into a repartee that is both playful and considered. The intersections of subjectivity and objectivity, figure and environment, self and other are examined and played out in the artists’ virtuosic manipulations of colour, depth and texture in luminous oils.
Mary, Mary, 2016.
Birdman, 2016.
Birdman, 2016.
Moon Man, 2016.
Biggs graduated with distinction from the Michaelis School of Fine Art in 2013 where she was awarded the Judy Steinberg Award for Painting. Her work has been included in a number of group exhibitions to date including Future / Present (Barnard Gallery, 2016); Picture & Paper (Barnard Gallery, 2015); Considered (M Contemporary, Sydney, 2015); Surface: Emerging Painters (Barnard Gallery, Cape Town, 2015); The Claims of the Land (Association for Visual Arts, Cape Town, (text Barnard Gallery)