Sarah Poots makes paintings that are intimate and quiet. Taking objects and surfaces from everyday archeologies her work plays with placement, arrangement and order. The paintings are immersed in the role of touch in our increasingly remote lives. Often, works are paired or presented in trio’s creating a painterly game of compare and contrast. Layered compositions create an internal conversation that resonates between works, and creates its own sense of order and logic.
Sarah Poots (b. Co. Down, N. Ireland) graduated from Glasgow School of Art, 2002; The Royal Academy Schools, London, 2010 and from HGB Academy Leipzig, Germany in 2008. Poots has exhibited extensively in the UK and Ireland. A selection of exhibitions include: Pourquoi London with Gertrude x Canopy Collections, Spitalfields, London, (2024); To Feel All Your Warmth, Warbling Collective, London, (2023); Contemporary British Painting Prize, (2021); Fully Awake, Holden Gallery, Manchester (2021); Blazon, Sid Motion Gallery, London (2019); The Toast, curated by Robin Footitt, New Arts Projects, London, (2018); Marching Through The Fields, Warbling Collective, London (2018); You can’t blame gravity for falling in love, curated by Eliza Bonham Carter, Lychee One, London, (2016); Outpost Open, Selected by Chris Rawcliffe and Lynda Morris, Norwich, (2016).
