Leith School of Art Exhib

Musings on 'Carrion' by Ms Morven Donald

car•ri•on n carrion [ˈkӕriən]

dead animal flesh, eaten by other animals


Sarah Green is a painter and collector who concentrates on the darker corners of the human psyche and offers a glimpse of what could be through her portraits of the living and the still.

After Sarah’s last exhibition “We are gruesome”, November 2010, the artist has concentrated on work to showcase her lurid inspirational depictions of the people and objects that make up her emotional landscape. From immediate family members and strangers to the thrown away excesses of modern living, the subject matters of the paintings and dioramas hope to teach us all that everything and nothing is sacred, but all exist together as timeless depictions of a life held together by the most frail and sterile of strands.

The works exhibited are concerned with the masking of emotions and the idea of the body as the false vessel which hides our 'true' self, the symbol of the mask as a 'perfect' external facade which conceals our imperfect self as a self-preserving method of dealing with the madness of a modern world which repels the idea of a common humanity.

There are lessons to be learnt here somewhere...