Details
| First Name | Sarah |
| Last Name | Kudirka |
| Username | sarahkudirka |
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| Region | Greater Glasgow |
| Disciplines | Drawing, Painting, Photography, Printmaking |
| Themes | Abstract, Environment, Landscape, Political |
Statement
| Statement | You know when you find something in your pocket that you picked up a while back, then forgot all about? Familiar but unknown, your fingers feel around its surfaces, find edges. Not until you pull it out of your pocket and it’s in your hand do you know what it is. Sarah Kudirka’s work is about exploring the shapes and edges of stuff, a bit like that. She is an artist whose work explores the shapes and edges of things derived from places we inhabit or remember. Kudirka paints iteratively, with oils applied and trashed back over months, sometimes years, to make “work that is beautiful, layered and thoughtful”. Overtly handmade, her colourful paintings on linen have often have a deeply-textured, subtly resonant surface. Alongside her more conventional paintings on linen, she paints and draws constantly over Polaroids and sometimes directly on found objects such as metal furniture or vinyl records. In recent years, Kudirka’s works in series have focused on bowl:boat motifs and shell-like forms that crowd together, intermingle, compete for space and make room for each other. Human tales of land and sea, of ancient journeys to the western isles and migration across oceans have influenced her mesmeric, seemingly fingerprint or tree-ring surfaced, soft-edged forms. Her semi-abstract forms recall natural and also constructed elements – like mapped landscapes and convex/concave vessels for gathering, storing and sharing essential resources.
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Biography
| Biography | Recent exhibitions: SSA Annuals at Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh and at Maclaurin Art Gallery, Ayr, also at Dalkeith Palace, Stallan Brand, K U D I R K A, Smithy Gallery, Tatha Gallery, Empire Gallery, The Briggait, Kirkcudbright Galleries, South Block Project Space and ArtCarBootSale at Tramway with Patricia Fleming Gallery, Glasgow. Residency at Cove Park, Argyll, August 2024 Key achievements: 2025 Elected Professional Member of the SSA, work in 127th Annual SSA show, Edinburgh 2024 Founded K U D I R K A artist-led ‘sometimes’ space in Glasgow’s West End. Curating to date, midsummer shows ‘Find Each Other’ June ’25, and ‘Lift Others Up’ June ’24 and winter events ‘to light the shortest day’ and ‘Shortest day : longest night’ in December ’24 and ’25 2023 “a bowl : a boat” solo exhibition at The Briggait, Glasgow (following group shows in Scotland including Stop.Start 2022 at South Block Project Space with Rowena Comrie SSA). 2020 Presented paper “The Photos by Women You just Won’t See” at the National Trust for Scotland’s Second Morton Symposium on Women and Photography in Scotland, convened online by Glasgow Women’s Library, papers published 2021 in Studies on Photography. 2018-22 SSA Elected Council Member 2010-2017 Charity Trustee and Board member of ACME London 2011-13 Artist Inhouse for Arup (created the role and inaugural post holder), value-add input to design teams on multiple global client projects, devised training modules and was founder – developed from concept to rollout – of The Penguin Pool creative event series (23 unique one-nighters sequentially in 15 cities worldwide, duration 21 months). 1990 The Passey Prize in Art, and other early career awards (as Sarah K. Davenport) BA (Hons) Fine Art & MA in Sculpture Studies The University of Leeds, England
Pronouns she/her. Partially deaf, but does not regard herself as a disabled artist. |