Here’s a shot taken by Chris Yelland at my second launch, for friends and family, at Velo. This is me giving explaining how all this art came about. (Naturally I […]
Author: Sarah
A cloud of words
I love word clouds. They have an arty quality all of their own, and since I incorporate written words into my work, I see parallels between images like this and […]
My launch with Range Rover
None of the Pulse of the City art would exist without Land Rover, the brand which quite literally inspired it. So it was only appropriate that I should hold a […]
The practicalities of painting with lipstick
What are the chances that someone who paints with lipstick would have a makeup remover wipes brand as a client? Clearly me and TLC facial wipes were a match made in […]
The Nguni Series
Think pop art meets 18th century English farm animal portraits meets 19th century naturalists’ notebooks meets social history. There’s a certain irony in placing cattle in a cityscape, but then […]
Car City: A love triangle
The car I drive originally catalysed all of this art through the Pulse of the City campaign, and continues to inspire it in other ways. When I am looking for […]
Putting up the work
Who knew? There are specialist picture hangers who handle exhibitions – which is a relief, because I’m terrible at hammering in nails. Here’s Tau putting up Electric Storm I and […]
Swimming at Night
During the summer months over the past three years I have swum in my parents’ pool in the evenings. From the water I could see the city to the south. […]
The Cityscape Series
The cityscapes are paintings not so much of Johannesburg itself but how I feel about the place where I have spent most of my life. I’m a child of the […]
Gondwanaland
Of all the work up at the Pulse of the City exhibition, this is probably the most personally significant to me. The Swimming at Night paintings come close, but as […]
How (and why) I started painting with lipstick
Among the many things I do is speaking. Connectedness is a theme I explore in my talks discussing the digital self, online identity and the strange set of coincidences that […]
The Zoo City Series
Lauren Beukes’ award-winning science fiction novel Zoo City has exerted a strong influence on my work. Set in Hillbrow, the zoo city of the title, it features characters mysteriously attached […]