SARA ANSTIS
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Sara Anstis, Plums, 2020, Soft pastel on paper, 37 x 30 cm.
Installation view. Revival I - XVIIIe siècle, 2023, Gowen, Geneva. Courtesy of Gowen © Annik Wetter
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ABOUT
Sara Anstis was raised on a small island off the Canadian west coast and draws and lives wherever she finds good light. She uses sensuous soft pastels and paint to build worlds at a remove from heteronormative patriarchy, yet strikingly transformative of it.
The predominant concepts that her works explore are “subjectivity, Eros, Thanatos, humour, personal mythologies,misunderstandings and (mis)anthropomorphisms.” These themes are woven together in her images and installations alongside a plethora of otherworldly elements - strange creatures, surreal landscapes and plants - by which her figures lay claim to desire, for better or for worse.
BIOGRAPHY
Sara Anstis was born in 1991 in Stockholm, Sweden. She lives and works in London, UK. Sara received a BFA in Studio Art and Sociology at Concordia University (Montreal, CA) in 2013 and an MFA in Fine Art from Valand Academy (Gothenburg,SE) in 2016. In 2018, she completed the Drawing Year Postgraduate Programme at the Royal Drawing School (London, UK). She has received grants from the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation (CA), Jerwood Arts (UK), and the Anna-Lisa Thomson foundation (SE) amongst others. Her work is present in the permanent collections of the Uppsala Art Museum (SE), the Region Uppsala collection (SE) and The Royal Collection (UK).
