Our House is Falling
US$ 8,800
Overview
2021
Oil Paint, Oil on paper
Unique Work
Dimensions: 171cm (H) x 126cm (W) x 3cm (D) / 67.3" (H) x 49.6" (W) x 1.2" (D)
Note: Actual colours may vary due to photography & computer settings
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About the art
Artist statement
Part of a series of works made using pigments that have s relationship to the South West Coast of England, this piece was made using mud rock from the jurrasic coast, a sea brick picked up from the beachh at Lyme Regis and madder and woad which were traded through the port at Lyme Regis since the 1400s at least. The sea brick is material evidence of coastal erosion as well as being a kind of orange ochre.
Hand made oil on arches huile paper with sea brick, mud rock, woad and madder pigments
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Artist profile
Sarah Needham
Born: 1965
Hometown: Fordingbridge
Based in: London, UK
An artist concerned with human inter-connectedness, and the interplay between the personal and the universal as expressed through the material of pigment.
"Sarah Needham is an artist and academic interested in unearthing hidden histories of humanity, taking into her conceptual sway the likes of piracy, the colonial slave trade and the …
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