Sarah Kudirka
Website: http://www.sarahkudirka.com
Email: sarah.k.kudirka@gmail.com
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City Skies Berlin large grid installation, paint + pencil on Polaroids
One Day in Shoreditch, limited edition print enlarged from original oil on Polaroid
19.20 HiddenLane Colours, oil over install, framed diptych 2019
HiddenLaneColours, oil over instax instant film exposures 2020
Work in Progress, oil over instant film images including ACTION letters made for SCAN Art in Action campaign, 2020
Glasgow City Skies images, oil over Polaroids 2018-20
Statement
Artworks about the shapes and edges of stuff: buildings, cities, furniture, objects and words. Working since 2012 on a series of paintings/drawings stemming from a simple but compelling idea: walking in city streets and looking up at the sky squeezed in between the buildings.Sarah takes Polaroid snaps as she walks around urban backstreets in cities (including Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dundee, London, Berlin, Hong Kong and Sydney to date) then obliterates them to create reimagined city spaces in oils and pencil. A painter not a photographer, Sarah's innovative analogue work nonetheless attracts interest in the international film photography community.
SSA Council Member forum on Youtube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1yzcC-raDg
Biography
Fine Art BA hons, University of Leeds - first class - 1990MA in Sculpture Studies, University of Leeds - distinction - 1991
Work in private collections internationally. In public and corporate collections in the UK including Kent Arts & Libraries and the British Institute of Human Rights.
Presented the paper "The Photos By Women You Just Won't See" at the second Morton Symposium on Women and Photography in Scotland, convened by the National Trust for Scotland with Glasgow Women's Library, on 29 October 2020
Born in the UK. Based in Glasgow since 2017.
