Regarding the Face: portraits by Alexandra Sasse

Posted: 16 Feb 2012

With a deep understanding of the language of painting and drawing Alexandra Sassé interprets the intangibles of human presence through colour and line. Working repeatedly with a small select circle of models, the intensity of the studio spills into these deeply articulate compositions of the head; images found in translation.

‘These portrait heads are worked from life from a small select circle of models. My aim is neither to reproduce reality nor delineate a character but to create. I am not heading the picture towards a truth already grasped, but responding to something unfolding. The work becomes about what is transmitted or transacted through that time in the studio translated to form and composition through the language of painting or drawing.’

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Hours: Tue - Fri 11am to 5pm  Sat 12pm to 4pm

Admission: Free

Exhibition runs Tuesday 21 February to Saturday 3 March 2012

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