Gallery Feature - Sarah Lightman
Sarah Lightman's recent collection of paintings, "BIBLICAL WOMEN AGEING DISGRACEFULLY” reimagines women who feature in religious texts, historical accounts, and the canon of Western art.
From time to time, MER features work by visual artists who are making art from motherhood; using lived experience as a woman and a mother to inspire their art.
We are proud to present the work of Sarah Lightman this month.
Sarah Lightman – “Biblical Women Ageing Disgracefully”
“Biblical Women Ageing Disgracefully,” paintings by Sarah Lightman, is showing in the UK at Chester Visual Arts in July. Lightman explains that these are “…paintings…of familiar figures, once painted by ‘masters’ of Western art, and trapped in scenes from my own life: Bathsheba is tired of the dishes; Eve’s lost in the pile of laundry; Mary struggles with parenting and experiences an unexpected perimenopausal bleed on holiday. In this exhibition of carefully observed watercolour paintings, I plait religion, humour, and satire to spotlight women’s lives, struggles, and ageing bodies.”
Read more about the artist and this project (including an analysis by Dr. Dawn Llewellyn) and see the classical paintings that inspired these paintings here.
Recently Featured:
Interview of Domenica Ruta, Author of All the Mothers
An Interview with Domenica Ruta, Author of the Novel All the Mothers, by Nicole Haroutunian
About a chosen family of mothers who have children—initially unbeknownst to them—with the same man, All the Mothers by Domenica Ruta is by turns devastating, hilarious, and paradigm-shifting. Structurally ambitious and narratively propulsive, the novel follows women making bold, courageous choices, forging their own paths, and showing up for one another. READ HERE
