Artist's Statement
My practice is an exploration into self, fantasy and desires.
I am strongly influenced by my childhood fantasies; fairytales, castles and the loss of innocence. I am fascinated by the dichotomy between our fantasies and our real desires. I explore these ideas through films and performances but ultimately they reside in my paintings. My painting seeks a magical land of fantasy and fairytale.
When I use paint to represent my ideas I work to conjure the illusion of skin and containment in the body. For me paint is a way of building up cells and filth to allude to the surface of the skin. My painting makes the disgusting and repulsive become beautiful. The containable becomes uncontainable. The body becomes fluid, unfixed.
My present work delves deeper into this idea of containment; capturing the feeling that it is something awkward and difficult. This has brought me back to my teenage years, examining the desire to be something that the body won’t let itself be. I am thinking a lot about how we are able to stay in our own body and how the skin keeps us in. At the moment I am trying to push these ideas of containment of soul as well as body, stretching that sense of awkwardness.
Artist Curriculum Vitae
Date of Birth: 21 June 1986
Education:
2005-08 BA (Hons) Fine Art, Chelsea College of Art & Design
2004-05 Diploma in Foundation Studies (Art & Design) and Level 3 Award in Life Drawing, Chelsea College of Art & Design Shows and Exhibitions
Prizes: Catlin Prize 2009
Forthcoming Exhibitions:
2011 Migration collaborative piece with Lola bunting , Proteus Gowanus, New York,
543 Union Street , Brooklyn, NY 11215
2012: Sarah Lederman solo show, ROLLO Contemporary Art, London
Shows and Exhibitions:
Currently a resident artist at The Centre for Recent Drawing.
2-4 Highbury Station Rd LONDON N1 1SB,+44 (0) 2032396936 Charity
No.1123530, www.c4rd.org.uk
2010 ‘Fade away’: Transition gallery, group show
2010 ‘Min ArtBarter’, Neu Gallery, Mat Collishaw, Charlotte Dualé, Wolfgang Ganter, Isabelle Graeff, Phoebe Collings-James, Sarah Lederman, Polly Morgan, Boo Saville, Volker Sieben and Tim Noble & Sue
2010 ‘The Body in Women’s Art Now: Part 2- Flux’
Tracey Emin, Cecily Brown, Nathalie Djurberg, Tiina Heiska, Sarah Lederman
2010 ‘In the Forest’ Residencies 1-7 June
2010 ‘At Home’ Group show at Rollo comtempary Art
23 February to 23 April 2010
2009 ‘The Caltin Prize’ 2009
Catlin Art Prize is determined by a panel of judges, including artist Toby Ziegler and the prominent collector, Robert Devereux
2009 ‘At Home’ Curated by Maxine Leslau and Liegh Message In a group show at Maddox Gallery from the 13th- 21st March
2008 ‘Orion contemporary’, curated by Dagmara Budzbon and Andrés Olow Clase
2008 ‘Antipation’ Kay Saachti and Catriona Warren, Selfridges London
Selected Press:
2008 Etan Stallman, ‘Kay Saatchi: Aunty to the student art scene’, TheTimes Online, July 16, 2008.
Helen Sumpter, ‘Young Bright Things’, Raconteur on Investing in
Art, The Times supplement, 16 December 2008, pp.14-7.
Awards:
2009 Catlin Art Prize (London, UK)
Award Nominations
2010 Sovereign European Art Prize (London, UK)
Jerwood Contemporary Painters (London, UK)
2009 Creekside Open 2009 (London, UK)
Publication:
About Painting, Working against the system And Fade away with accompanying text by Barry Shwabsky, Published 2011, ISBN 978-0958814-03
The Body in Women’s Art Now: Part 2- FluxAuthor: Philippa Found Contributing Essays: Tracey Warr, Paul Carey-Kent, Philippa Found, 2010, ISBN 978-0-9563803-1-9
Public collections:
University Art Collection, University of the Arts (London, UK)
The David Roberts Collection (London, UK)