Sarah kernohan

Sarah Kernohan received her MFA at the University of Waterloo (2015) and received a BFA in Drawing and Painting from OCAD (2008). She has exhibited her work nationally and internationally, including exhibitions at Gallery Stratford, Stratford; Galerie AVE, Montreal; the Terrain Biennial, Waterloo; Art Mûr, Montreal. She has completed residencies at The Banff Centre (Banff, AB), The Bothy Project (UK), and Spark Box Studios (Picton, ON). Her work is in private and public collections, including the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo and The Line Gallery, North Bay. She is the recipient of several awards, including the Ontario Graduate Scholarship, Keith and Win Shantz Fellowship, and grants from the Ontario Arts Council and Region of Waterloo Arts Fund. She lives and works in Kitchener, Ontario.

Her work is rooted in memory, my experiences of landscape, fascination with geological processes and weather-related phenomena. It comes from a response to the landscape that she approaches with a sense of wonder, reverence, awe, and mystery.

Sarah’s practice includes drawing and collage. Drawing as a space to explore how to record and recreate the subtle phenomena that she encounters, such as tidal processes and sedimentation visible on snow. Her collages make use of her photographs, where her working process allows Sarah to create a fuller image of what she collects on walks, stitching these images together to build out what is beyond the frame, using inference as a guiding logic.

For more information visit: www.sarahkernohan.com
@sarahkernohan

Sarah recently had her first show at the Red Head Gallery called “Snow-blind”. You can view her exhibition page here.