Sarah Targett | Look Out, 2023

22.5 x 30 cm

Edition of 60

Sarah Targett’s screen prints explore the liminal space between the domestic and natural world. Inspired by historic collections of domestic artefacts and readings on anthropomorphism Sarah has combined drawing from observation, with these influences to create this series of prints. Birds and animals escape decorative motifs on plates and cups and disrupt the viewers expectation of their appropriation as images, these are not still life rather they gently remind us of the wildness that exists in parallel with our tame social world. Witty titles to the work reflect her approach as the word play adds to a sense of implied narrative. Screen print is the perfect medium in which to express the various motifs and images of Sarah’s work. It has the capacity to allow a collage of expression, a drawn line, an appropriated image, opaque and transparent colour. Her colours are drawn from the natural world and the objects that inspire her with the addition of pops and flashes of contemporary colour and metallics which ground the work in the present and nod to the artifice in the creation of images. She has exhibited at the RA and RWA.