Black Socks, No Panties! / The Stone Bouquet from Cologne

Sarah Cameron is an abstract painter who makes paintings over different durations and in specific places. She offsets painting with a combination of made and found objects, photography, and text, thinking about how painting sits next to materials with more readily interpretable politicised content. For her first solo exhibition in Glasgow, she presents new paintings and an object with works from 2015 that have not previously been shown as a series. There are also photographs from her ongoing ‘body’ series.

In her paintings Sarah employs acts that could be construed as negative – cutting, tearing, dispersing – that help to expose new lines of thought, with the works becoming a collage of growing ideas and stops or rests. In parallel, Sarah’s small photographic works of close-up posed images of the body are inspired by the shapes of succinct minimalist typography. These photographs have their roots in images from pornography. However, positioning her own body or the bodies of close friends in her work, she delicately moves the focus away from the spectacle of commercialised body image and towards the formal elements of contour, balance and elegance.