Interview
We lined up an interview with Sarah when she was in painting a beautiful artwork in Hosier Lane (see picture above).
Where are you from?
Im from Melbourne.
What attracted you to this area (hosier lane)?
Its not a gallery. I can do my art freely.
What do you enjoy most about what you do?
I enjoy being able to express myself through my artwork.
What inspires your art?
The people and faces around me
How does Melbourne make you feel?
Melbourne makes me feel free
What's your favourite place in Melbourne
Fare fields
If you could change one thing about Melbourne, what would it be?
I would want to be able to do my art freely and not get fined for it.
We lined up an interview with Sarah when she was in painting a beautiful artwork in Hosier Lane (see picture above).
Where are you from?
Im from Melbourne.
What attracted you to this area (hosier lane)?
Its not a gallery. I can do my art freely.
What do you enjoy most about what you do?
I enjoy being able to express myself through my artwork.
What inspires your art?
The people and faces around me
How does Melbourne make you feel?
Melbourne makes me feel free
What's your favourite place in Melbourne
Fare fields
If you could change one thing about Melbourne, what would it be?
I would want to be able to do my art freely and not get fined for it.
"Sarah Masson is a Melbourne-based Artist who creates large scale, performative painted work. You can find her public commission pieces across the Melbourne CBD in iconic places such as the Marriott Hotel, Hosier Lane and the Powerhouse Geelong.
For Sarah, process is as important as the finished work. In 2014, she was invited to perform live art at Strawberry Fields Festival and from this was inspired to create exhibitions and events where she reveals her process to audiences. No longer painting alone in a studio, her conversations and interactions with spectators inevitably alters the final work.
Sarah composes paintings using expressive, structural lines, shapes and vibrant colours to illustrate the human form. Her process is imperfect, with gestural lines and the initial formwork left revealed. These layers suggest a human made quality; they are purposefully imperfect.
Her current body of work explores voyeuristic portraits of strangers. She deconstructs typically beautiful faces by fragmenting and morphing the perfectly captured images. Her layered work writes personal history into the portraits: suggesting strength in independence and the struggle of finding personal balance, her female subjects are unaffected and content in their natural state.
Sarah has a background in graphic design, having completed a Bachelor of Design at RMIT.
She draws inspiration from artists such as Harding Meyer, Basquiat, Twoone, Martisse and Mia Oatley for their bold choices with colour and fearless use of paint."
(Description was taken from http://sarahmasson.com.au/about-contact/)
For Sarah, process is as important as the finished work. In 2014, she was invited to perform live art at Strawberry Fields Festival and from this was inspired to create exhibitions and events where she reveals her process to audiences. No longer painting alone in a studio, her conversations and interactions with spectators inevitably alters the final work.
Sarah composes paintings using expressive, structural lines, shapes and vibrant colours to illustrate the human form. Her process is imperfect, with gestural lines and the initial formwork left revealed. These layers suggest a human made quality; they are purposefully imperfect.
Her current body of work explores voyeuristic portraits of strangers. She deconstructs typically beautiful faces by fragmenting and morphing the perfectly captured images. Her layered work writes personal history into the portraits: suggesting strength in independence and the struggle of finding personal balance, her female subjects are unaffected and content in their natural state.
Sarah has a background in graphic design, having completed a Bachelor of Design at RMIT.
She draws inspiration from artists such as Harding Meyer, Basquiat, Twoone, Martisse and Mia Oatley for their bold choices with colour and fearless use of paint."
(Description was taken from http://sarahmasson.com.au/about-contact/)
we retrieved these photos from her social media accounts (see below!)
See more of her art by following her on social media;
Instagram: @sarahmassonart
Twitter: @sarahmassonart
Facebook: www.facebook.com/sarahmassonart
Pinterest: @sarahmassonart