Sarah Cunningham

Sarah Cunningham is a British artist born in 1993 in Nottingham, UK. In 2019, she was honored with both the Ali H. Alkazzi Scholarship Award and the Djanogly Art Award. Currently, she lives and works in London.

Sarah Cunningham's Art Style

Sarah Cunningham explores the essence of vitality within her imaginative landscapes and fluid forest scenes. Crafting kaleidoscopic realms and envisioned woodland clearings, she layers bursts of light, line, and color to construct intricate spatial structures. Cunningham's process involves gestural marks that evolve through continual obliteration and overpainting, revealing hidden worlds and pastures.

Her work embodies both abstract experimentation and a spiritual odyssey, symbolizing the innate, unspoken bond between nature and humanity. Acting as a conduit for this interconnectedness, Cunningham pays homage to ancient practices dedicated to mutual understanding.

Drawing from literary, art historical, and personal sources, she blends and dissolves these influences through vibrant, expressionistic mark-making. Employing an improvisational approach to materials, every sweeping gesture and crystalline composition reflects Cunningham's innovative use of tools, such as dragging cloth to remove paint or adding branches to brushes for extended reach and altered strokes.

Exhibitions of Sarah Cunningham's Works

Recent solo exhibitions of Sarah Cunningham's artworks include "The Crystal Forest" at Lisson Gallery in London (2023) and "In Its Daybreak, Rising" at Almine Rech in New York (2022). 

Sarah Cunningham has also participated in group exhibitions worldwide, including "Time Curve" at Lisson Gallery in Seoul (2023), "New British Abstraction" at CICA in Vancouver (2023), "Bodyland" at Galerie Max Hetzler in Berlin (2022), "Diaries of a Climate" at Baert Gallery in Los Angeles (2021), "June Presentation" at Almine Rech in Aspen (2021), "Salon de Peinture" at Almine Rech in New York (2021), among others.