Sarah Moon

Texture, surface, seeing, believing, dreaming. It is difficult to summarise Sarah Moon s fantastical photography almost thirty years of image making has made Sarah Moon (1941) a legend in her own lifetime. Well known for her very personalised commercial work since the early 1970s, Sarah has continued to investigate a world of her own invention without repetition and also without compromise. Looking into Sarah Moon s extraordinary photographs is comparable to looking through a twoway mirror. The mirror surface becomes the print and the viewer has the privilege of standing on the otherside looking through the image at the same time. The living creatures are rendered so still and conversely the inanimate objects, such as the dolls, become human and expressive with their own inimitable character, ultimately mirroring each other. There is an atmosphere and intensity which is constantly apparent that sets her work apart. It is also the range of subject matter, the banal, the br, br,