Letters From a Strange Year - Sarah Needham Artist

Letters From a Strange Year
Artist’s conversations are well documented throughout history and are central to practice. They provide a space for critique, reflection and growth. Letters from a strange year is an exploration of how, over the duration of the global pandemic two artists; Paul Anderson Morrow and Sarah Needham continued their conversation throughout this strange year.
As we move forward into 2021 and with an end to the current situation in sight, the work presented in this exhibition explores how their conversation changed and responded to the challenges of the pandemic. It is a means to both mark this chapter and to reflect on how it informed their practice during this trying time.
To exhibit and show and share work is central to an artist’s practice. We would like to invite you to join our conversations and to reflect on this strange year.

During the period of the subsequent lock downs, as a result of further conversations, the project has grown larger with proposed travelling exhibitions and workshops, with an emphasis on inclusion, a growing archive of letters made by a members of the public to form part of the exhibition in an installation, and a planned for stored archive of this peculiar time.

An artist project by Sarah Needham and Paul Anderson Morrow consisting of a book, a series of exhibitions with artists conversations and online salon, real world salons, workshops in community and gallery settings

The Project currently has an exhibition of works in Blue on the website: www.lettersfromastrangeyear.com

Instagram: @paul_anderson_morrow, @sarahneedham1965, @lettersfromastrangeyear

magpie shoes, Sarah Needham, oil on canvas, 120x120cm, 2020

Jaqueline, Paul Anderson Morrow, acrylic on paper, 2020

Holding nothing, Sarah Needham, oil on gesso on paper, 2020

reculver, Paul Anderson Morrow, acrylic on paper, 2020

Arcaheologies Centre, Sarah Needham, hand mixed oil on canvas 100x100cm, 2020

Galliard, Paul Anderson Morrow, Acrylic on paper, 2020

Large responses in Isolation no 7, Sarah Needham, sump-ink one kozo paper, 2020

Boundaries No 2, Paul Anderson Morrow, acrylic and gesso on paper, 2020

Looking for connections, Sarah Needham, oil on wood, 80x80cm, 2020

clavicle, Paul Anderson Morrow, acrylic on paper, 2020

dissolution, Sarah Needham, hand mixed oil with mudrock ochre and repurposed industrial graphite, on gesso on paper, 2020

Minnis, Paul Anderson Morrow, acrylic on paper, 2020