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City Skies London - Clerkenwell Painting

Sarah Kudirka

United Kingdom

Painting, Oil on Paper

Size: 15 W x 8.1 H x 1 D in

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ABOUT THE ARTWORK

Evocative, muted colours triptych comprising three oil paintings on Polaroids* in the ongoing City.Skies.London series by Sarah Kudirka. (This collection of three images is considered by the artist as a single artwork within the series). The title of this piece refers to the Clerkenwell area at the edge of the City of London / Barbican on which the snaps that lie beneath the painted images were based. When did you last look up at the sky? When promoting the entire City.Skies.London series, Sarah uses this question as a hook as her focus is on picturing the slices of sky squeezed in between buildings as she walks around cities. Her point is that while we all spend too much time looking down at our phones or our feet in urban life, her job as an artist is to do precisely the opposite. *Sarah uses film that is equivalent to Polaroid stock made by the firm Impossible Project/HQ NB This artwork has been exquisitely framed (by Mark Darbyshire) under highest-conservation-standard museum-quality glass

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Painting:

Oil on Paper

Original:

One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:

15 W x 8.1 H x 1 D in

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Sarah Kudirka (nee Davenport) is an award-winning contemporary British artist who makes art about the shapes and edges of things: buildings, cities, objects and words. An artist producing striking and mature work, she brings both passion and playfulness to her work. Sarah's paintings are made by using oil paint and pencil applied directly over Polaroid shots that she has taken while walking through cities. The idea is simple: walk and look up at the sky in between the buildings. The resulting art is compelling. She reimagines the city streets and skyline in paint and pencil on Polaroid scale, never copying the photo obliterated beneath. Her series 'City Skies London' now numbers over 400 images and they are available both unframed and in exquisitely framed grids. Just a couple have been enlarged and are offered as limited edition prints. Sarah is now also working on series about Berlin, Glasgow, Hong Kong and Sydney. The artist is inspired by all sorts of stuff to do with material culture; street furniture; the built environment; urban landscape; design; language and architecture. Characteristically lo-tech and handmade in aesthetic, Sarah Kudirka's work is regarded as technically-innovative, accessible and beautiful.

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Showed at the The Other Art Fair

Handpicked to show at The Other Art Fair presented by Saatchi Art in London

Artist featured in a collection

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