Sarah Lederman’s paintings explore fractured narratives, revisiting memories of past places, people and moments. Motifs flicker across the surface, from bouquets of flowers to couples caught in intimate exchanges. Her imagery draws on art historical references, medieval manuscripts, erotic illustration and more recently AI-generated material that she translates into oil paint. Her figures range from grotesque animal hybrids to human bodies absorbed in sensual pleasure; whimsical yet unsettling, they oscillate between the erotic and the repellent. Although her works often begin as drawings, layers of paint gradually overtake them, causing the figurative elements to recede into the background.

Sarah Lederman’s work is held in international private and public collections, including the David Roberts Art Collection, London; Newhall Art Collection, Cambridge; University Art Collection, University of the Arts, London. She has exhibited at The Women’s Art Collection, Murray Edwards College, Cambridge; Centre for Recent Drawing, London; Kay Saatchi, London; The Bomb Factory Art Foundation, London; Canopy Collections, London; Hopper Projects, Los Angeles; Sawyer Yard, Texas. In 2009 she was recipient of The Catlin Art Prize for emerging artists in the UK.