ABOUT

ARTIST STATEMENT

My art is a direct imprint of my own exploration of life through a spiritual lens. I seek the core of our beings and find Oneness which I aim to shine light on and take you on an adventure to visit forgotten caves that you might have been scared to enter before. Like Hilma af Klint, I am guided to receive visions that can be triggered by various means, including meditation, hypnosis, yoga, dance and philosophy. To express this energy, I use different mediums such as oil painting, ceramics, etching and performance. My colour choices are intuitive and help me to reinforce the psychological states and stories that I would like for you to visit with me. I often use myself as a reference for my figures that depict luminosities and meditational deities as a symbol of embodiments of our own actual essence. The poses of my characters are rooted in contemporary dance and yoga, and I play with their scale to invite you to occupy their positions. I enjoy using the figure as a symbol of our soul to shine light on sublime experiences. As I create paintings, I let my instinct lead me to express my inner world in a visual language for you to interpret. It is my pleasure if it evokes bliss.

BIO

Sára Várady (b. 1992, Budapest, Hungary) began her art studies in 2012, receiving the Art of Evolution Foundation by Montázs Arts Studio. She subsequently completed a year-long mentor program in Painting and Graphic Design at Óbuda Art School and an additional year-long painting course focused on Fine Arts. She earned her first degree, a BSc in Industrial Design, from the Budapest University of Technology and Economics. With direct entry into the second year, she pursued a Fine Art BA at the University of Dundee, Scotland. During her studies, she participated in the ERASMUS program at Universitat Politécnica de Valéncia, Spain, where she specialized in anatomical drawing and oil painting. Varady also received a full scholarship for the Summer School at the East China University of Science and Technology in Shanghai, China.

In 2018, she graduated with a Fine Art Honors degree from the University of Dundee and subsequently moved to China to teach art at Olive Tree International Academy while traveling across Asia. In 2020, she relocated to London to pursue an MA in Print at the Royal College of Art, from which she graduated in June 2022. Currently, she resides and works in London.


Varady's work has been exhibited in Hungary, Scotland, the Netherlands, Wales, and China.

EDUCATION

Royal College of Art, MA Print
University of Dundee, BA Fine Art, (direct entry to the second year)
Budapest University of Technology and Economics, BSc Industrial Design
Training School for Hungarian University of Fine Arts, painting course
Óbuda Art School, Mentor program in Painting and Graphic Design

AWARDS/SCHOLARSHIPS

2017 Full Scholarship for the Summer School at the East China University of Science and Technology (Shanghai)
2016/17 Erasmus -  Universitat Politécnica de Valéncia, Fine Art
2012 Art of Evolution Foundation, by Montázs Arts Studio

SELECTED SHOWS

2023 Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, London, UK
2022 'COME OUT & SEE', Universe Gallery, Hangzhou, China2022 'Art in Mind and Contemporary Painting', Brick Lane Gallery, London, UK 
2022 'AR(T) FUTURES: Behind the frame', Gallery Different with St.Art Galleries, London, UK 
2022 'Emerging artist show', BSMT Space with St.Art Galleries, London, UK 
2022 'IMPRESSIONS', Southwark Park Galleries, London, UK 
2022 'Pull over and take a cig', Espacio Gallery, London, UK
2021 ‘Metaphysics of Locality’, Vajda Lajos Studio Cultural Association, Szentendre, Hungary
2021 The Other Art Fair, King's Cross, London, UK
2020 36TH ANNUAL OPEN EXHIBITION, Southwark Park Galleries, London, UK2019 Etching, the mysterious, Me More Art Museum, Desman International Center, Zhongnan Road, Wuchang District, Wuhan, Hubei, China (solo show)
2019 The 6th Hubei Fine Arts Festival and the 4th International Contemporary Art Festival, Hubei Institute of Fine Arts Museum, Wuhan, Hubei, China
2019 We/Together, ChuShang Art gallery楚上艺术, Wuhan, Hubei, China (solo show)
2018 Hungarian travel exhibition, Generator Projects, Dundee, UK
2018 "KABALA", Vajda Lajos Studio Cultural Association, Szentendre, Hungary
2017 "INSPIRATION", Vajda Lajos Studio Cultural Association, Szentendre, Hungary
2017 Float, Veneer Gallery, Glasgow, UK (solo show)
2017 Interactive Projections, DCA, Visual Research Centre, Dundee, UK
2016 Selected exhibition of medals from the Student Medal Project, The Oriel Henry Thomas Gallery,   Carmarthen School of Art, Carmarthen, Wales, UK
2016 Generator Member’s Show, Dundee, UK
2012 "Move me!", Central Europe Dance Theatre, Budapest, Hungary