by SarahThorntonSmith | Aug 17, 2025
slow emotion replay suite of works “Memory is a vinyl disc. In our heads, a phonograph plays endlessly. The music is sometimes sublime, other times discordant. A scratch in the record might see the needle jump and skip in a loop of revision and reinterpretation....
by SarahThorntonSmith | Aug 15, 2025
A Concentrated Experience The ferae naturae series grew from time spent at the Donnelly River verandah residency, where I became absorbed in the minutiae of the forest floor—small leaves, curling stems, and shifting patterns of light. In the studio, these impressions...
by SarahThorntonSmith | Aug 14, 2025
Timbre series Timbre series is an ongoing rhythm in colour, where painted hues on timber align and diverge in shifting sequences. Moving beyond paper, these works dwell in the pure play of perception, each arrangement carrying quiet traces of memory, time, and place....