"This is a particularly significant and moving moment because it marks a deeply meaningful homecoming: the return of the artist's work to the city where she was born and raised,"
"or any sense of a formal roadmap"
"by working on the floor with rags and brushes"
"I treat the surface of the painting as a pal"
Nottingham Contemporary will stage the first institutional solo exhibition of Sarah Cunningham next autumn, representing the largest presentation of her work to date. Cunningham was born and raised in the Wollaton area of Nottingham and previously worked at Nottingham Contemporary as a gallery assistant. She graduated with a Masters from the Royal College of Art in 2022 and held her first solo exhibition, The Crystal Forest, at Lisson Gallery in 2023. Cunningham died in November 2024 aged 31 after stepping onto the track at Chalk Farm station; a coroner ruled the death accidental. Her work combined abstract forms with fleeting figurative imagery, exaggerated brushwork using an extended brush made from scraps of wood, and a nocturnal studio practice developed while juggling gallery and delivery jobs. She avoided preparatory sketches and often began paintings on the floor using rags and brushes, drawing inspiration from urban and Central American jungles.
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