SARAH MONTGOMERY
Sarah is a Tasmanian born artist and printmaker working in Sydney. As Sydney Road Gallery’s curator she has a keen eye for detail with a passion for working with creatives to expand their opportunities and develop a professional art practice. Sarah is the owner of ArtSmart, a local Artstore and Framing business in Seaforth. She advises and designs for artists, interior designers and customers on creative, bespoke framing and hanging of fine-art.
As a printmaker, Etching is at the heart of her art practice, where she hopes to generate interest in the environment and natural world around us. She is drawn to the slow process of mark making, creating etched layers and tones in copper with distant lands and seascapes allowing personal interpretation. The imagery builds with many small elements, sketched seed pods with curled edges and delicate lines, overlays of embossed shapes. Burred, black, brittle stems contrast with white spaces and circle motifs. These signature marks describe wild places, along with little vignettes of objects found and foraged.
There is a story, it is your own . . .
Journal entry: “The ink glides smoothly across the plate, the contours and hollows softened with mustard hues, and steely greys. The drawings overlap and many lines give shape to a detailed printing plate, a new story begins, measured by moments of observation.”
Sarah Montgomery
Co-Founder of Sydney Road Gallery est. 2017
BFA
