Sarah Masson

Sarah Masson is a Melbourne-based street artist who creates large scale, performative painted work. A regular contributor to Melbourne’s iconic Hosier Lane, you can find her public commission pieces across the Melbourne CBD. For her, process is as important as the finished work. She challenges the notion of an archetypal artist by revealing her practice to audiences during exhibitions and live painting events.

Sarah composes paintings using expressive, structural lines, shapes and vibrant colours to illustrate the human form. Her process is imperfect, with gestural lines and the initial form work left revealed. These layers suggest a human made quality; they are purposefully imperfect.  Her current body of work explores voyeuristic portraits of strangers. She deconstructs typically beautiful faces by fragmenting and morphing the perfectly captured images. Her layered work writes personal history into the portraits: suggesting strength in independence and the struggle of finding personal balance, her female subjects are unaffected and content in their natural state.