Sarah kernohan

Sarah Kernohan (she/her) builds work focusing on landscapes, large-scale natural physical events, and memory. She completed her MFA at the University of Waterloo (2015) and her BFA in Drawing and Painting at OCAD University (2008). Recent exhibitions include Snow-blind at Gallery Stratford (Stratford, ON), Node at Galerie plan.d (Düsseldorf, Germany), and Again and again and again at The Assembly (Hamilton, ON). She has completed residencies at the Pouch Cove Foundation (Pouch Cove, NFLD), The Banff Centre (Banff, AB), and The Bothy Project (Aviemore, UK). She received a General Arts Award from the Arts Awards Waterloo Region (2022) and grants from the Ontario Arts Council and Region of Waterloo Arts Fund. She lives and works on the Haldimand Tract in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada.

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 has an upcoming exhibit with Red Head Gallery “Splitting Distance”. On View, Oct 9 - Nov 2, 2024.