Contemporary Art Society, Friday Dispatch: Tanoa Sasraku
Tanoa Sasraku is known for her ongoing research into her personal relationship to the memories, mythologies, and energy stored within the British rural and coastal landscapes. During her unsettled youth in Plymouth, Sasraku found solace and a sense of freedom in the close-by windswept moorlands of Dartmoor. Her first solo-exhibition in London at Vardaxoglou Gallery focuses on her Terratypes, a recent series of works on paper which can be described as sculptural hybrids of painting, drawing, collage, and printmaking. Presented at Spike Island, Bristol, in a major solo-show this summer for the first time, they continue the young artist’s exploration of British geology and topography that is informed by her perspective as a lesbian artist of British-Ghanaian background.
Each of Sasraku’s Terratypes is comprised of several sheets of blank newsprint which she hand-stains with million-year-old earth pigments foraged from landscapes significant to her.
