Sara Robichaud’s exploration is shaped and informed by objects of personal and symbolic significance in her life
Nanaimo artist Sara Robichaud’s latest collection, Double Life, is a series of large-scale acrylic paintings that explore the various roles in her life. The birth of her daughter, Amelie, set in motion what seems to be a creative meditation about life, from birth to death, and the roles a mother—who also happens to be an artist—inhabits.
Intensely personal and symbolic objects inform the wider work in Double Life—including the scales, surfaces, and colours Sara uses [opens to PDF]. “Like the personal objects that I use as inspiration, the paintings themselves become reminders of certain phases of my life—reflecting what was happening and how I felt,” she says.
“Double Life encompasses the myriad of roles that I play as a wife, mother and artist and highlights the duality between mundane routines and internal tension to epiphany and exhilaration.”
The exhibition is currently displayed at Nanaimo Art Gallery’s Vancouver Island University location until November 3rd, 2012.
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Image: Sarah Robichaud reflecting on her shadow. Credit: Cakes
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From left to right: (1) Sara Robichaud contemplates her ‘double life’ (photo by Cakes); (2) Pinky Honey; (3) Sara Robichaud pouring colour at the gallery opening of Double Life. Click on thumbnails to view full resolution images.
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Visit the ‘Double Life’ exhibit at Nanaimo Art Gallery’s Vancouver Island University studio.
