Domestic Pleasures
This exhibition focuses on Sarah’s life drawings, etchings and collages juxtaposed with objects from nature, history and the home, in imaginary miniaturised rooms. Many of the objects and materials have been given by other artists with whom she has an affinity. This includes those given by the daughters of the late Eve Penn who, over thirty years, privately created a post-modernist model house based on an award-winning design for social housing in St Marks Road, Notting Hill, by the architect, Sir Jeremy Dixon. Domestic Pleasures at The Open Dresser provides an opportunity to exhibit work that references Sarah’s investigations into the model house and its maker.
Sarah is a printmaker, assemblage artist and curator. She works at Ochre Print Studio in Guildford @ochreprint.
Her work can be seen @cliff_sarah on Instagram and sarahcliffart.com
Top of dresser
Left: The Somnambulist
Charcoal on etching, organically dyed silk on spool by @somewhere_sprout on mattress by Eve Penn
Centre: TheWatcher
Pit-fired clay and drawing pins
Right: The Shibarist
Gouache on etching, found red oak leaf
Top shelf
Left: Darker Pleasures
Etching, mono-printed porcelain, pit fired figure, turned ebony with flint
Right: The Giantess at 4 am
Collage, stoneware
Middle shelf
Left: Toast
Eve’s toaster, pastel on etching, crayoned backdrop
Right: The Garden Let In
Monotype triptych, mattress by Eve Penn, found shells and stag beetle
Bottom shelf
Left: Tea
Eve’s teapot, found maple leaves, collage of papers given by @laudet.art
Right: Lucien’s Room of Indifference
The late Poe’s eyes etched on crayoned wallpaper, Raku fired clay dog, mattress by Eve Penn, painted rug
Mirrored shelf
Lazy Susan’s Psychedelic Cellar Show
Biddie’s 'Lazy Susan', screen print collage, cast resin figure
