Sarah Brasier (b. 1990, Ballarat, Australia) is an emerging artist and curator who in invested in working towards creating accessible spaces for emerging artists to show free of charge. In 2016 she founded the Winter1706 art fair, which presented a series of exhibitions by emerging artists across a suite of vacated apartments on St Kilda Rd in Melbourne. This was followed by two more shows in the ‘Winter’ exhibition series: WNTR Echo Location ; 170 Russell Car Park, Melbourne, Australia (2016) and WNTR x Gertrude; Became; Becoming; Becomes ; Gertrude Contemporary, Studio 12 (2017). She is interested in friendship as a creative motivator and aims to build a supportive community of people in the art world.
In her own artistic practice Brasier paints anthropomorphised versions of her fears and anxieties. Each painting might be viewed as a still frame from a life-long feminist revenge tale, punctuated by moments of despair, happiness and simple pleasures. Brasier’s work employs an exaggerated and faux naïve form of representation to convey her intensely personal views of the world. These psychodramatic scenes incorporate astute observations, absurdist thoughts and draw on personal histories. She employs bright colours and humour to offset the work’s often dark origins.
