Sara Maher
Artwork title: Lost Field
Medium: A digitally altered photograph of an ephemeral artwork that was made in collaboration with the elemental forces of air and light in Nipaluna (Hobart)
Size: 160 cm x 112 cm
$7,500
About the Artwork
Lost Field brings imaginative attention to the expanded and elusive boundaries of both place and cosmos. It evolved as light-sensitive ink permeated through paper, which later lay in the sun; an heirloom lacework made by my distant ancestor rested atop. Over many weeks, sunlight faded the paper and a barely visible solar x-ray of the fabric formed. This entry is an inverted photograph of the original artwork. In the inversion process an intensely rich portal of blue light revealed an otherworldly dimension, co-existing with the familiar material realm of our lived reality.
Photography and digital colour grading by Peter Whyte.
Printing and Digital Colour Grading by Simon Olding
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About the Artist
Sara’s works on paper evolve as a dialogue with materiality and the forces of gravity and light. Their feel of illumination links indivisibly with the human condition. Sara completed post-graduate studies at UTAS (2005). Arts Residencies amid heritage sites of Australia have been a powerful source of inspiration. Sara won Tidal.22, City of Devonport Art Award. Sara is represented by Bett Gallery.
Photo: Rémi Chauvin