100% linen
72 x 45 cm
Edition of 200
Sarah Rayner lives and works in Wootha, Gubbi Gubbi country, Sunshine Coast Hinterland Queensland. Her art practice is underpinned by an interest in plant reproduction and the aesthetics of museology. Living in bushland and surrounded by flora, Sarah has a close affinity with Australian native plants. She is both informed and inspired by the sheer ingenuity and tenacity of plants, their cyclic metamorphosis and the clever methods they have evolved to attract pollinators and protect their precious seeds. Her particular interest lies in the reproductive organs of plants and the by-products of plant reproduction... fruits and seedpods. Sarah studies and dissects these incredible structures, examining junctions and joins, form, texture, cracks and crevices and the way layers peel back to reveal sensuous interiors.
An important aspect of her practice is to arrange and document her collections of native seedpods and florets into formal flat lay panels. These arrangements inform her sculptural arts practice and distil the acts of walking, observing and collecting. They capture the relationships between various families of plants and highlight the incredible diversity of Australian native flora.
The fragility and delicate balance of the natural world in the face of human impact are overriding and recurring themes within Sarah's practice.
