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‘It has to be about the work’

Nick Churchill learns about the creative work of Dorset artist Sarah Hough

Sarah Hough mixing paint for one of the panels for her ‘Moment’ exhibition

IMAGINE travelling by car, by boat and by foot from west Dorset to the same spot at Shard Point on Brownsea Island, not just once but once a week, every week, for a full calendar year. That is what artist Sarah Hough did, to contemplate and respond in art to the environment she found there. It was no small effort, but in Sarah’s book, neither was it evidence for the cod-philosophy that claims it is necessary to suffer for one’s art.
‘Definitely not,’ she says. ‘I really liked …

 

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