SARAH KERNOHAN
Sarah Kernohan’s work is rooted in memory, memory recall of natural imagery, and a direct response to the landscape that she approaches with a sense of wonder, reverence, awe and mystery. Her drawings evoke both the landscape itself and geological processes.
Sarah explores the process by which materials settle into place over time, recording the lift, drag, and back-and-forth movement of sediment as waves carry it, never landing in the same position twice. Her memories of landscapes from places visited, or looked at in photographs and satellite imagery, has a strong influence on the associations she makes when viewing something for the first time. By navigating space on foot, and then through drawing, Sarah calls upon all these associations – to make sense of what she has encountered in the landscape. Sarah draws focus to a world around us that is often neglected and overlooked.
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 ON; Galerie AVE, Montreal PQ; the Terrain Biennial, Waterloo ON; and Art Mûr, Montreal PQ. Her work is in private and public collections including the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo ON and The Line Gallery, North Bay ON. She is the recipient of several awards; including the Ontario Graduate Scholarship, Keith and Win Shantz Fellowship, and grants from the Ontario Arts Council. She lives and works in Kitchener, ON.
