SARA FLYNN : New Work - Installation photography now online

SARA FLYNN

Until 29 October 2020

an exhibition of new work

"Sara Flynn has been introducing us to forms and vessels that are made on a wheel. They are then deconstructed and reconstructed as if they were conceived as dwellings for a neighbourhood in which the vessels might be inhabited by individuals, couples or families. The forms are not simply altered to create niches and corners that make you hone in on the detail of the vessel: they relate to each other like dwellings or architecture that spontaneously grows outwards and spreads instantaneously like the favelas, sheltered adobe clusters in deserts or hill side granaries of Mali."

Dame Magdalene Odundo OBE

"The vessels in this exhibition take forward Sara’s interest in the quiet radical nudge of the unanticipated line. On the face of it, a vessel ought to pay homage to order and symmetry and usefulness, but her vessels resound with the offbeat curve, the rim that dips, the foot that flattens.

The slender surface of an elongated form is pushed in on the side; deep scars run down. Sinuous curves are embedded into the walls of some works, enhancing the vessel’s sculptural potencies. Pairs of pots nod urbanely to each other, lean in as if in conversation. Her lines are sharp and soft, carved and dimpled, the volumes squeezed and fulsome, sometimes both in the same work. These are works of order, contradiction and peerless poise. They seem to be both totemic and somehow introvert, always self-contained."

Professor Simon Olding

The above quotes are from texts which appear in the exhibition catalogue.

Installation photography, and a digital version of the exhibition catalogue, can be viewed on our website here.