SARA CUTLER
Sara Cutler immigrated to Israel from London in the early 2000s. She won the Aon Art award in London in 2017 and presented her first solo exhibition at the Artists' House in Jerusalem in 2022. Cutler creates large and highly expressive oil paintings which are materially lush, filled with brushstrokes and painterly gestures. They have been described by Israeli art historian Gideon Ofrat as paintings embracing the depths of the Israeli local collective existence.
Working in layers with oils, with overlapping brushstrokes on the canvas, she investigates how forms interact, dissolve, and reemerge. The human figures she depicts are blended with an explosive energy, producing human chaos that ranges between desire and violence, between imagination and reality. At times the figures seem to engage in a fight, others are caught in an embrace, and all of them generate swirls of movement, emotion, and vitality, which reflect her charged encounter with the Israeli existence.
Her last body of work marks a departure from her earlier focus on more figurative forms. By embracing the ephemeral, her recent paintings allow space for ambiguity and imagination, embodying a sense of uncertainty—both personal and collective. Through this shift, Cutler seeks solace amidst chaos, reflecting her own personal meditative exploration of resilience, rebirth, and the beauty inherent in moments of transition and change.