Thin Spaces, Charcoal, 160 × 110 cm
Sarah Praill explores ways of embedding ‘presence’ within a surface through drawing, painting, print making and small sculptural objects. It is an archaeology of feeling and locating. A mark feels like a letter in the landscape of encoded things. She often make iterations of the same motif arranging them together like a paragraph or a sentence. She thinks about the space around a thing; like the air or oxygen around a letter when you look at the kerning between two letters. Motifs become part of her own vocabulary. Writing an image into being.