Installation Shots From: Gaiety Is the Most Outstanding Feature of the Soviet Union
Installation Shots From: Gaiety Is the Most Outstanding Feature of the Soviet Union
Installation Shots From: Gaiety Is the Most Outstanding Feature of the Soviet Union
Installation Shots From: Gaiety Is the Most Outstanding Feature of the Soviet Union
Installation Shots From: Gaiety Is the Most Outstanding Feature of the Soviet Union

Margot Sanders

SELECTED WORKS BY Margot Sanders

Margot Sanders
In Fine Company

2012

Acrylic on paper

230 x 450 cm (made up of three panels)

ARTICLES

Artist's Statement
Margot Sanders

The core focus of my practise is my interest in the body, a subject, I think translates well into paint. Drifting from man to woman and vice versa towards a metamorphosis with animals, identifying sexuality and gender. While I refer to animal as a symbol to identify the beast within us, it is also used to affiliate itself with the history of painting tradition such as battle scenes found through the likes of Baroque painters and deluge mythology like Noah’s Ark as seen with Francis Danby’s The Deluge, 1840. What remains a consistent back drop within my work is my relationship with painting and the figure. Whether I paint it or not, it will always be there and this in turn has evolved into other forms, it has manifested into a particular focus on clothing for example through the patterns and of textiles.

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Margot Sanders
ROLLO Contemporary Art, ‘Paint’ Press Release

Sanders graduated from Chelsea College of Art and Design in 2008, and was awarded the Brenda Landon Pye Portrait Prize 2008. Sander’s works have been exhibited in London and Vienna. Exploring issues of sexuality and identity in her paintings Sanders creates hybrid characters of part human and animal form. In the most recent works presented in ‘Paint’ at ROLLO Contemporary Art, Sanders focus is on the body in the domestic, where the animal is
displaced to props such as soft toys, plastic animal masks and fur coats, presented as subtle indications of the human character. Applying thick oils with broad brush strokes, Sanders handling of flesh and skins gives a luscious feel, juxtaposed against flat background colours. Displaying confident mark making, rich colours are applied directly without hesitation or mixing. Sanders application of paint engages with the history of painting, showing influences of artists such as Goya and Ruben’s.

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