Mulberry Detritus

BEGUN WITH YOUNG OFFENDERS

Sara’s installation Mulberry Detritus (approx. 350cm x 400cm), together with the 2D triptych Detritus, began as a 4.5 metre circular floor painting on paper, collaboratively-made with a group of young offenders during a rehabilitation workshop. Post session, alone in the studio, Sara tears, punctures holes and slaps on layers of mulberry-hued paper onto the first layers of expressionistic painting. Moving away from her 2D habits, she challenges the walk-along-the-wall-looking-at-art convention. Stimulating a more active involvement with the artwork – walk around, peer through, stretch to look up, bending down to see what’s underneath – the experience of looking becomes more memorable.

The Detritus triptych is created from paper remnants, carefully salvaged from Sara’s collage technique of splicing up, tearing, scoring into and pealing away paper layers. Each of these tiny pieces have a history, once being part of a painting that didn’t need them. Detritus I, II & III (each 65cm x 50cm) give the paper debris a chance for a new life of their own.