Sarah Muirhead
A graduate of Edinburgh college in 2009, Sarah Muirhead's paints and draws fleshy works resulting from her own personal obsession with people. They are not portraits, but records of the individuals portrayal of their own image. They are the result of meeting with strangers, those who are isolated, different or counter-cultural, who Muirhead chooses as subjects. The act of walking up and talking to them encourages a need to be significant which the artists then describes on her layered painting and heavily worked drawings. They form the subject but the compositions are snap-shots, less posed and forced than a portrait, but still revealing of her obsession for people and their position within their surroundings and clothing.
Tattoo 1
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Painting
100cm x 140cm
Acrylic on board
This subject was found after enquiring in a tatoo parlour and being confronted by a multitude to tatoo manual style poses. He was chosen as more natural and interested in the transference of tattoo art to acrylics. The image was first done as a soother version but then later worked into the more blocky style with parts missing, which Muirhead reasoned by adding that he just 'didn't seem like a finished kind of guy'.
£1,050
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