WORDS Jasmine Pirovic / PHOTOGRAPHY courtesy of HAKE House of Art / PUBLISHED Mon, 18 Sep 2023 - 3:30 pm
Sara Mugnes / RUSSH interview read HERE
ARTIST BIOGRAPHY / SARA MUGNES
Sara Mugnes is a visual artist living and working in Sydney on Guringai Land. Her work is primarily focused in painting, where she draws from her connection, memory and experience within the natural landscape.
Through her abstraction of place, she aims to create a thoughtful and immersive experience for the viewer. Sara Mugnes is a recent graduate from the National Art School where she studied a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Painting).
CURRENTLY AT HAKE
Sara Mugnes participated in HAKE group exhibition ‘HERE WE ARE’ in August 2022 and were honoured to showcase Sara’s solo show at HAKE, which opened September 15th 2023. To enquire about Mugnes’ work please reach out here, in the meantime to view available work please click the link below.
CATALOGUE / ‘The Deep End’ - Sara Mugnes 2023 / SOLO EXHIBITION
ARTIST STATEMENT
A memoir of colour, crashing upon canvases like waves to a headland. Sara Mugnes uses this body of work to give voice to an inner monologue, her thoughts documented, so expressively immortalised in each of these works. The suite of pieces, like the pages of a diary. Her lived experiences after surrendering to the ebb and flow of her emotional spectrum and finding liberty in it.
Pulling inspiration from such intangible and abstract concepts, Mugnes relies heavily on her technique of demonstrative brushwork to draw up narratives of raw emotion and journeys through them. Working intentionally on oversized surfaces, Mugnes uses the titanic scale to envelop you into her emotional realm, creating a landscape of feelings for the audience to find themselves in. To have you be completely immersed in The Deep End.
- Words by Venn Miles, HAKE.
