Last Exhibition
Spring Fling, Summer 2022
Spring Fling is an eclectic mix of art and craft work by artists with close connections to R-Space Gallery. This spring sale exhibition has work ranging from painting to glass textiles to ceramics. The varying themes and motifs of the work cover ideas from domestic objects to rural surroundings.
This is the debut of the series Transistional States, a body of 6 abstract paintings which represent Sarah's output during 2020.
Past Exhibitions
‘ Earthly Things’ ran from October to December 2017, at All Saints Welcome Space, Kings Heath, Birmingham. The work exhibited is from my 2016 exhibition, with the addition of a few new pieces. The assemblages are often constructed as a form of memorial or homage to an individual and create highly symbolic narratives through the juxtaposition of everyday objects and images.
Sarah McWilliams and Lesley Whitehead at the opening of their joint exhibition at R-Space Gallery Lisburn, 15th July.
‘Grand Union’ and ‘Montgomery’s’ are paintings based on photographs taken whilst exploring personally significant urban spaces. The act of painting from my own photography begins an exploration of the relationship between the painting as artefact and the photograph as document. Surfaces decay with peeling paint, rusty locks and graffitied hoardings and act as metaphors for the passage of time. The inclusion of text from signage creates an ironic narrative alluding to the destiny of place.
Montgomery’s Ice Cream Parlour was where our mother took us to get ice cream after we’d been to the dentist. This seeming act of defiance towards oral hygiene was only one aspect of why Montgomery’s was etched into my childhood memories of Lisburn in the 1980’s. (SOLD)
Exhibition 2016. In the spirit of the victorian Cabinet of Curiosities, objects have been collected together by way of exploring the value of sentiment, the patina of nostalgia and the hoarding of personal relics. Compositionally, 'Earthly Things' creates order from a hoard, excavated from belongings that have been collected, inherited and found. The construction of this fictional archive of 'ready mades' eludes to a narrative, the symbolism and juxtaposition of items suggestive of a fairytale.
Exhibition 2015