Sara Knowland produces a profusion of cut/paste collisions in her studio that feed off a wide range of sources.Tending towards immersion in a world of objects and paintings, her output is eclectic, allowing the play of quotes and references full reign in founding her Version2 history of art: just the interesting bits. Less an editing away than an attraction to what is sufficient, the abuse of source material is refreshing and honourable. With her interest she also brings an attentiveness to what has brought us to this moment in history.
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The charm of teenaged ploys to make a picture, from copying and tracing to sticking stuff onto drawings, guides the shredding of classics. Re-patched into colour coded Pattern Orbs of papier-mâché, and adorned with tinted paper tiles from colour studies of a Bosch, Sara Knowland‘s world of art is an economic flash of what inspires. The naïf joy of inhabiting this sort of world never overturns the serious commitment towards those things we have been left to start with.
