Monday, 19 March 2012

Sarah Howell

Sydney-born, London-based artist Sarah Howell (b. 1976) studied a Bachelor of Fine Arts at University of NSW’s College of Fine Arts and has trained at Central St Martins College of Art & Design, London.

She is a master of mixed media and one of the most in-demand illustrators in Europe. Her layered, computer-manipulated images are as sensual as they are subversive, with a “grunge meets graphic” element and a powerful surreal aesthetic.

As such, Sarah’s images do not adhere to “regulations”: she is a serial breaker of laws of nature, where animals (equines, especially) frolic and frot in technicolour skies. Ink-splatters breed like black algae; two blood-red skulls are joined, playing-card style, with virtual Araldite. These otherworlds are dotted with op-art motifs. Female nudes receive vivid cuts and colours.

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