Sarah Graham - New Work at Lyndsey Ingram

There's an exhibition of new artwork by Sarah Graham to mark the reopening of the Lyndsey Ingram Gallery in London. It opens today and runs until 18th September 2020.

You can view:

• the virtual exhibition
• a video of her in her studio in Chelsea - painting very lush strokes of paint and talking about her studio and its contents and how she works
• the e-catalogue on Issuu which provides an image of each of her very large painting
• Read more about Sarah Graham in Ruth Guilding's essay commisioned for the monograph - which includes great photos of the exhibition hung in the gallery (another way of doing a visual exhibition!)

Known for her expressive, large-scale drawings of the natural world, the artist is presenting new subject matter focused on the surreal juxtaposition of flowers and insects. Hellebores and peonies intertwine in an intimate dance with bees and butterflies, all painted in Graham’s characteristic large scale. Their magnification, combined with exquisite detail, transforms these drawings of flora and fauna into evocative images of a world often overlooked. Viewers are enveloped as they stand dwarfed by the beetles and blossoms so often trodden underfoot.
 
She has drawn the flowers from life as much as possible and the insects from the National History Museum’s collection. Through the adverse circumstances of the last few months, observing spring at close quarters, Graham’s vision of the beauty and strangeness of nature may be particularly relevant to modern sensibilities.

In addition, the first monograph about her work is being published to coincide with the show - although it looks as if the publication date might have been hijacked by the Pandemic

Author: Ruth Guilding
Photography: Miguel Flores-Vianna
Publisher: Ridinghouse Publishers
Publication date: ?

Her work is included in the Shirley Sherwood Collection (and was hung in the 'British Artists in Shirley Sherwood Collection's - which is why I went to see her last show at Lyndsey Ingram - see Sarah Graham exhibition opens in September

Drawings from her 2018 Solo Exhibition at the Lyndsey Ingram Gallery

About Sarah Graham

​Her bio is a gift to any gallerist!

• Born in Edinburgh in 1973. Grew up in rural Scotland and France. Her father was the Clerk to the House of Lords and her godmother was the daughter-in-law of Lord Clark who was Director of the National Gallery and who had a fine art collection of his own. 
• Education: Masters degrees in history of art from Edinburgh University and fine art from Edinburgh College of Art (1992-1996)
• Her upbringing produced a tendency to do her own things. After graduation, she rode the Silk Road in Asia for five months riding on horseback - while making a film - just after the Twin Towers came down. Elected a Fellow of the royal Geographical Society on her return. Subsequently worked in the Antiques Trade before beginning to draw again in 2005. She started with charcoal and drew on brown packing paper and created enormous drawings which were exhibited at the Chelsea Flower Show and caught the eye of Lyndsey Ingram - with whom she has exhibited ever since.
• She now lives and works in Chelsea, London, and has two children with her second husband James Holland-Hibbert. 

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You can find the Lyndsey Ingram Gallery at 20 Bourdon Street, London W1K 3PL

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