Sarah Checksfield's experimentation with everyday materials and
products in creating her work is born of her tactile and playful
nature coupled with a desire to create art not guided by conscious
conformity. Indeed, she welcomes the accidental or serendipitous
elements in her work, often the outcome of employing untried
processes, which she takes as an opportunity to rethink new
possibilities towards the end piece. Altogether, Sarah produces
an eclectic body of work giving the appearance of multiple authorship;
hardly surprising when considering that a large finger painting
showered with glitter may be followed by a piece made from the most
seemingly mundane household materials, manufactured products and
waste.
Similarly, Sarah's multifarious concepts can evolve just as much
from her love of art, science, history and nature as from a fleeting
thought, a throwaway comment or happy happenstance. Amongst other
things, she cites the whole naked, flirting, shiny, multifaceted
universe as her influence, and that at the heart of her work is the
pleasure gained from adventurous expression, thought conjuring and
thought play with the aim of warmly engaging the viewer through her
atypical style and perhaps raising a smile.
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