Sarah Wilson
Bachelor of arts in fine art
Michaelis School of Fine Art
Graduates: 2024
Specialisms: Fine Art / Ceramics / Painting
My location: Cape Town, South Africa
Sarah Wilson
First Name: Sarah
Last Name: Wilson
University / College: Michaelis School of Fine Art
Course / Program: Bachelor of arts in fine art
Graduates: 2024
Specialisms: Fine Art / Ceramics / Painting
My Location: Cape Town, South Africa
About
Sarah Wilson isa Cape Town based fine artist who graduated with a BA Fine Art degree from Michaelis School of Fine Art in 2024. Prominant themes in her work relate to concerns of embodying power, reflection and memory. She creates through the mediums of clay, paint on canvas mainly but explores many other forms in her practice.
This body of work that I created in 2024 is concerned with the embodiment of power and uses ceramic pinhole cameras with the intention of (re)turning the gaze inwards in an effort to administer urgent therapy to the self. I created a series of 10 ceramic sculptures that doubled as pinhole cameras and 10 images that were taken by their corresponding camera. The pieces work together and contrast the view of the imagined self with the reality of its apparent and true form. The sculptures (cameras) and images were made to be viewed together but can also be viewed for their beauty separately. My process is one of hand building using coiling to create the sculptures that I have contrasted in the types of clay used, these being Porcelain and Charcoal clay giving them their opposing colourings. Then comes the daunting and long process of capturing the images from their mirrored sculptural forms using the method of experimental pinhole photography, which exposes onto photographic paper that sits inside the sculptures (cameras).
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