Image: Build Your Own Horizon at ‘Re:Group - Fragments in Constellation’ exhibition with Uillinn, West Cork Arts Centre and Skibbereen Arts Festival 2022.

What is it to be here? How do you represent that experience? What are the implications for representation in the face of today's crisis? A world facing climate change and extinction. My work investigated the loss of the world through the loss of the visual world, particularly painting, and the shattering of preconceived ideas about the image.

I make art and write to create a place where I can exist honestly and vulnerably, explore the nature of being and consciousness, dispel feelings of irrelevance and cultural ambiguity, and feel a sense of belonging and connectedness to the world.

This website spans more than thirty years of Sarah Iremonger's visual art and writing practice, from the first oil paintings in the early 1990s to the conceptualisation of the work in the late 1990s, site-specific multi-media approach through the 2000s, a return to painting since 2014 and a pan-disciplinary approach through recent developments in text-based and digital artwork.

Recent work responds to the death of the image and the post-representational transcendental turn brought about by the loss of meaning in an image-saturated world. Based in Kinsale, Co. Cork, Ireland, early work consisted of large abstract paintings expressing an indefinable presence with epic implications. Later, work engaged with the world through site-specific installations that explored a pan-disciplinary approach to ideas about representation.

Found images are adapted to create abstract paintings and drawings (Horizons) where the originals are hidden in a forest of post-representational visual noise. A second series uses Venn Diagrams as a self-directed systematic approach to making paintings (Vessels). At the same time, the text-based work (Cantos), based on notebooks collected between 2014 and 2024, meanders through thoughts about meaning and process, creativity and politics, texts are reframed in the style of an epic, non-rhyming stream-of-consciousness, prose poem.

To view recent work contact Oliver Sears Gallery www.oliversearsgallery.com
+353 (0)1 6449459 / 33 Fitzwilliam St Upper, Dublin 2, Ireland