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- Sarah Hodnett
Sarah
Hodnett
The Material Speaks
Sarah Hodnett explores ideas of the unseen. She draws on the ambiguous nature of visual perception and her own relationship with sight, and how light is captured into a physical image as part of her practice.
This series, The Material Speaks, focuses on the resurgence of 19th century Spiritualism within a contemporary context and how the recent pandemic has amplified this revival. Tissue paper, tracing paper, pigment and covid screens with digital media, such as photography and film are combined with video projection mapping as a way of painting with light, creating site-specific, light orientated installations.
The abstract principles of painting, colour, scale and mark making, and the behaviours of the materials, influence how the work is produced. The paper’s fragility is made evident through the act of mending, altered by the artists or viewers movement.
Hodnett balances intuitiveness and measured deliberation, with chance being central to her creative processes. Other aspects are more measured, in her combination of digital and analog imagery and the material process involved in the printing of the images. She questions how we engage and view ourselves in relation to the ephemeral qualities of the spiritual through the materials used. How does the material speak to us? What does it say?
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