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‘My practice is an exploration into self, fantasy and desires. I am strongly influenced by my childhood fantasies; fairytales, castles and the loss of innocence. I am fascinated by the dichotomy between our fantasies and our real desires. I explore these ideas through films and performances but ultimately they reside in my paintings. My painting seeks a magical land of fantasy and fairytale.

 

When I use paint to represent my ideas I work to conjure the illusion of skin and containment in the body. …The containable becomes uncontainable. The body becomes fluid, unfixed…I am thinking a lot about how we are able to stay in our own body and how the skin keeps us in. At the moment I am trying to push these ideas of containment of soul as well as body, stretching that sense of awkwardness.’

 

Education:

2008 - Chelsea College of Art and Design, London, BA (Hons) Fine Art

2005 - Chelsea College of Art and Design, London, Diploma in Foundation Studies(Art&Design) and Level 3 Award in Life Drawing 

 

Awards:

2009 - The Catlin Art Prize               

 

Exhibitions:

2010 - With Rollo Gallery, London 

2010 - With Orion Contemporary at ArtHelsinki, Finland

2010 - Alterwalden at Shankill Castle, Ireland

2010 - ‘Sarah Lederman work in progress show’ C4RD, London

2010 – ‘At Home’, Rollo Contemporary Art, London

2010 - With Orion Contemporary at the AAF, Brussels, Belgium

2009 - ‘Creekside open’ (selected by Mark Wallinger), APT Gallery, Art in Perpetuity Trust, Harold Wharf, London

2009 -  'At Home’, Maddox Gallery, W1, London  

2008 -  'Between Body and Gesture', Orion Contemporary, Masons Yard, St James’s, London

2008 -  Anticipation, Selfridges, London

2008 -  Chelsea Degree Show, Chelsea College of Art and Design, London

2008 -  Chelsea Card Auction, Chelsea College of Art and Design, London

2007 -  Ripeness, Flaxon Ptootch Gallery, London

2007 -  The Flaxon Ptootch Group Show, Flaxon Ptootch Gallery, London      

2007 -  Token, Bethnal Green Old Town Hall, London

2006 -  This Way Up, Temporary Contemporary Gallery, Deptford