Courtesy: the artist and Bett Gallery, Hobart.

Sara Maher is a mid-career visual artist based in lutruwita/Tasmania. Since completing Fine Arts degrees at the National Art School (NSW) and the University of Tasmania, locating a sense of self-in-place has been central to focusing the development of her work. At the heart of her practice is deep reflection on our intimate belonging within the more-than-human world, alongside a personal awareness of the gravity of living and creating on Aboriginal lands, as a descendent of Irish-European settlers.

Through the tension of these relations she creates large immersive organic abstractions on paper and tenuous, storied art-forms in miniature. Residencies amid remote mountainous and island terrain of lutruwita, and a connected residency amid semi-desert terrain of mainland Australia have been deeply influential.

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