- Venue
- Star Brewery Gallery
- Starts
- Saturday, July 5, 2025
- Ends
- Sunday, July 13, 2025
- Address
- Star Brewery, Castle Ditch Lane, (off Fisher Street) Lewes, East Sussex, BN7 1YJ
- Location
- South East England
- Organiser
- Star Brewery Gallery, Lewes
Following an outstanding solo exhibition last summer at The Star Brewery Gallery in Lewes, Sussex artist Sarah Money returns for a presentation of her latest paintings and sculptures. The solo exhibition will feature 16 new works, including a series of large-scale, emotive natural landscape paintings, vibrant still life compositions and stone-fired ceramic figure sculptures.
Money is a multidisciplinary artist working both in painting and ceramic sculpture. Her former background in physical theatre and dance is evident in her expressive use of various mediums to explore intuition, rhythm and movement.
“After a highly enjoyable and successful exhibition at the Star Brewery last year, I am excited to be returning to this special gallery space once again. My paintings and sculptures continue to centre around movement, texture and colour, and reflect the personal journey I have been on this year.” Sarah Money
Following frequent trips in the last year to the wild landscape of Dartmoor National Park, and classes at her local community art studios The Paddock in Lewes, Money’s work is informed by regular outdoor sketching and clay modelling. Referencing former observations of natural landscapes and the human form, Sarah Money works instinctively over many revisits and iterations of ideas to arrive at her finished compositions.
Figure sculptures depict gentle postures: a mother cradling her children, an angel, a woman curled up in sleep, but are conversley hardwearing and heavy in texture, suited perfectly to outside spaces. After the first fire, Money then stone-fires the models (at a higher temperature) using craft-crank clay, giving the pieces a characteristically weathered look. The sculptures’ calming aqua and earthy tones compliment a similar palette in Money’s expansive paintings, which act as scenic backdrops to the figures.
