Sarah Wood: Always On My Mind

Always On My Mind (Part 2) opens Thursday 31st of August 2023 and features the work of 16 artists including: 

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What’s always on your mind these days and is it having an impact on your art work?

 "The usual things, everyday concerns, mundane chores, the people I care about. What is going to happen? How will I manage? My art work takes me away from all this."

Image above: 'Dependant’ oil on board 41x31cm

Can you name an art exhibition, art book or artist that changed the way you think?

"An exhibition of Vermeer in The Hague in 1996. Everyday scenes that I found extremely moving at the time, and still do. The paintings of Morandi, deceptively simple. Reading ‘A Room of One’s Own’ by Virginia Woolf when I was a student, though I haven’t read it since."

Q) The National Brain Appeal provide much-needed funds to support The National Hospital for Neurology & Neurosurgery and the UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology – together known as Queen Square. This is one of the world’s leading centres for the diagnosis, treatment and care of patients with neurological and neuromuscular conditions. These include stroke, multiple sclerosis, brain cancer, epilepsy, Parkinson’s disease, and dementia. Have you or your loved ones ever suffered with any of these things?

"Both my parents suffered with dementia. I ‘lost’ my mum to Alzheimer’s in about 2014, but she actually died in 2019. It is heartbreaking and devastating to witness the person you know disappear, but still see them in body, if not mind. The fear and confusion in her eyes stays with me. I hope one day to remember her for her life and not for the way she died."

The opening party for Always on my Mind Part 2 is Thursday 31st August 6pm till 9pm at Fitzrovia Gallery, 139 Whitfield Street W1T 5EN