Sadie Aston

Sadie Aston is a practising artist alongside her role as a specialist Painting Technician Demonstrator at Arts University Bournemouth. She graduated from AUB's MA Painting course in 2022, after also completing her BA in Fine Art (2021).

Sadie delves into the enigmatic threshold that divides realms of existence – life and death, the bygone and the imminent, the tangible and the ethereal. Her artistic inquiry navigates the essence of being ensconced within a corporeal form, engaging with the universe that envelops us. This exploration is not just visual; it is a profound, emotionally and psychologically laden journey that scrutinises our introspective selves, our interactions with others, and the dance of our physical forms in isolation or communion. The figures within her works seem to emerge from a mystical void, defined by the fluid motion of oil paints cascading across the canvas. These figures, captured in moments of subtle interaction – a glance, or the gentle contour of a shoulder illuminated – are rendered with an intimacy that suggests a connection transcending the physical realm.

Her professional painting practice has led her to participate in several creative opportunities. During her MA, Sadie began planning and curating exhibition events in Bournemouth locally, and has since began showing in galleries around the UK including London, Halifax, Lethworth and Milton Keynes.

Sadie is now a painting specialist working on the BA (Hons) Fine Art course at AUB, and hopes to inspire other young creatives to pursue art as a career as well as bestowing the wisdom of technical skills that are so imperative to any Fine Art practice.