Details
| First Name | Sarah |
| Last Name | Kudirka |
| Username | sarahkudirka |
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| Region | Greater Glasgow |
| Disciplines | Drawing, Painting, Photography, Printmaking |
| Themes | Abstract, Architecture, Landscape, Political |
Statement
| Statement | You know when you find something in your pocket that you picked up then forgot? Familiar but unknown, your fingers feel around its surfaces, find edges. Not until you pull it out of your pocket and it’s in your hand do you know what it is. Sarah Kudirka’s paintings have long been about exploring the shapes and edges of stuff, like that. Her latest series have focused on bowl:boat motifs and shell-like forms. Using repeated fine brushstrokes, they recall natural and constructed elements – mapped landscape contours, fingerprints and convex/concave vessels. Recognised as “work that is beautiful, layered and thoughtful” her paintings on linen (and instant film) are distinctive for their scraped, oft-obliterated, deeply-textured, trashed and retrieved paint surfaces.
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Biography
| Biography | Recent exhibitions at Stallan Brand, Smithy Gallery, Tatha Gallery, The Briggait, Kirkcudbright Galleries, Glasgow Contemporary, ArtCarBootSale at SWG3/Patricia Fleming Founder of K U D I R K A an artist-led space in Glasgow – launch exhibition in June 2024 Key achievements 2023 “a bowl : a boat” solo exhibition at The Briggait, Glasgow (following group shows in Scotland including Stop.Start and BACKSPIN, in 2021 and 2022 at South Block Project Space). 2020 Presented paper “The Photos by Women You just Won’t See” at the National Trust for Scotland’s Second Morton Symposium on Women and Photography in Scotland, convened online by Glasgow Women’s Library, papers published 2021 in Studies on Photography. 2018 One-month Artist Research Residency at Project Ability & one-day installation 2018-22 SSA Elected Council Member 2010-2017 Charity Trustee and Board member of ACME London 2011-13 Artist Inhouse for Arup (created the role and inaugural post holder), value-add input to design teams on multiple global client projects, devised training modules and was founder – developed from concept to rollout – of The Penguin Pool creative event series (23 unique one-nighters sequentially in 15 cities worldwide, duration 21 months). BA (Hons) Fine Art & MA in Sculpture Studies The University of Leeds, England Pronouns she/her. Partially deaf in both ears, but does not regard herself as a disabled artist. |