Sarah Jane Hender recently graduated from Central Saint Martins with an MA in Fine Art, where she re-explored and expanded her painting and video language which was awarded the CSM Cass Art Award. Her work and education spans almost twenty years, the years in between have either been filled with motherhood or home-educating her child. She has exhibited in many group exhibitions and co-curated and performed solo public interventions.
‘The work I produce is currently drawn from my desire to emulate the many complexities of womanhood. I channel a type of essence from images within faces and bodies I seek to capture or by subverting the real figure into one that sits within an unreal space.’
Her work often blurs the lines between real narratives, self-experience, and the imaginary space between, utilising the figurative as conduits for playing with the ideas of the overt feminine and masculine aesthetic and how images can be interpreted as new portrayals through paint and figuration. Touching on the harsh realities women can encounter, whilst reflecting on the body image as objectified.