Sasha Bowles British

Overview
Sasha Bowles is a London based multi-disciplinary artist, working across painting, objects, film and installation. Bowles creates artefacts and installations housed within provisional environments that are a means of storytelling but are not a narrative. Her practice is an evolving loop, dealing with illusion, intervention and metamorphosis; immersing herself in historical tropes encountered in houses of grandeur and often using as a jumping off point; the Baroque bravura of artifice.

You are asked to enter through a backdoor of theatricality and pass into hallways of reconstructed grandeur, where the once grand patrons of illustrious houses are reimagined alongside metaphysical surreal like artefacts. Through appropriating once familiar objects, old master paintings, found ornaments and etchings fallen from historical books; Bowles erases, mischievously rearranges and discretely brushes over her unwitting sitters and artefacts. Using elements of the museum, the collection and display, the works are re-contextualised, opening new interpretive possibilities.

Works
  • Classical Backdrop
    Sasha Bowles
    Classical Backdrop, 2023
    Digital print on vinyl
    245 x 255 cm
    96 7/16 x 100 3/8 in
  • Figure in a Landscape 1
    Sasha Bowles
    Figure in a Landscape 1, 2022
    Collage
    24 x 16 cm
    9 7/16 x 6 5/16 in
  • Figure in Landscape 3
    Sasha Bowles
    Figure in Landscape 3, 2022
    Collage
    27 x 18 cm
    10 5/8 x 7 1/16 in
  • Hairy Embracement
    Sasha Bowles
    Hairy Embracement, 2018
    oil paint on found book pages
    23.5 x 18.5 cm
    9 1/4 x 7 1/4 in
  • Pinhead
    Sasha Bowles
    Pinhead, 2018
    oil paint on found book pages
    14.5 x 10.5 cm
    5 11/16 x 4 1/8 in
  • Woven over Time
    Sasha Bowles
    Woven over Time, 2018
    oil paint on found book pages
    28 x 20 cm
    11 x 7 7/8 in
  • female head cushion
    Sasha Bowles
    female head cushion, 2023
    Linen
    50 x 50 cm
    19 11/16 x 19 11/16 in
  • pine sphinx cushion
    Sasha Bowles
    pine sphinx cushion, 2023
    Linen
    50 x 50 cm
    19 11/16 x 19 11/16 in
  • pineapple collection
    Sasha Bowles
    pineapple collection, 2023
    Bone China
  • plate 3
    Sasha Bowles
    plate 3, 2023
    Bone China
    height 20.5 cm
    height 8 1/16 in
  • Archer
    Sasha Bowles
    Archer, 2021
    Pigment Inkjet Print on 308 gsm Natural Soft White Cotton Rag Archival Paper
    image 27.5 x 16.8 cm, 10 13/16 x 6 5/8 in
    paper size 42 x 29.7 cm 16 9/16 x 11 11/16 in
  • Bubble Protector
    Sasha Bowles
    Bubble Protector, 2021
    Pigment Inkjet Print on 308 gsm Natural Soft White Cotton Rag Archival Paper
    image 26.8 x 16.4 cm 10 9/16 x 6 7/16 in
    paper size 42 x 29.7 cm 16 9/16 x 11 11/16 in
  • Pineapple Sugarcube
    Sasha Bowles
    Pineapple Sugarcube, 2021
    cardboard, photograph, painting, objects
    400 x 600 cm
    157 1/2 x 236 1/4 in
  • By Hook and by Crook
    Sasha Bowles
    By Hook and by Crook, 2021
    Pigment Inkjet Print on 308 gsm Natural Soft White Cotton Rag Archival Paper
    image 26.8 x 17.2 cm, 10 9/16 x 6 3/4 in
    paper size 42 x 29.7 cm 16 9/16 x 11 11/16 in
  • Moonlit Angel
    Sasha Bowles
    Moonlit Angel, 2021
    Collage on card
    29.7 x 21 cm
    11 11/16 x 8 1/4 in
  • Harlequin Two
    Sasha Bowles
    Harlequin Two, 2021
    Pigment Inkjet Print on 308 gsm Natural Soft White Cotton Rag Archival Paper
    image 27.5 x 16.8 cm, 10 13/16 x 6 5/8 in
    paper size 42 x 29.7 cm 16 9/16 x 11 11/16 in
  • He carried on regardless
    Sasha Bowles
    He carried on regardless, 2021
    Pigment Inkjet Print on 308 gsm Natural Soft White Cotton Rag Archival Paper
    image 27.5 x 16.8 cm, 10 13/16 x 6 5/8 in
    paper size 42 x 29.7 cm 16 9/16 x 11 11/16 in
  • Cloaked Ecstasy
    Sasha Bowles
    Cloaked Ecstasy, 2021
    Collage on card
    42 x 29.7 cm
    16 9/16 x 11 11/16 in
  • Hair Pillar 4
    Sasha Bowles
    Hair Pillar 4, 2021
    Pigment Inkjet Print on 308 gsm Natural Soft White Cotton Rag Archival Paper
    image size 36 x 24.7 cm; 14 3/16 x 9 3/4 in
    paper size 42 x 29.7 cm 16 9/16 x 11 11/16 in
  • Hair Pillar I
    Sasha Bowles
    Hair Pillar I, 2021
    Pigment Inkjet Print on 308 gsm Natural Soft White Cotton Rag Archival Paper
    image 35.5 x 24.5 cm 14 x 9 5/8 in
    paper size 42 x 29.7 cm 16 9/16 x 11 11/16 in
  • Poppy Pillar
    Sasha Bowles
    Poppy Pillar, 2021
    Pigment Inkjet Print on 308 gsm Natural Soft White Cotton Rag Archival Paper
    image size 36 x 24.7 cm; 14 3/16 x 9 3/4 in
    paper size 42 x 29.7 cm 16 9/16 x 11 11/16 in
  • Rose Pillar
    Sasha Bowles
    Rose Pillar, 2021
    Pigment Inkjet Print on 308 gsm Natural Soft White Cotton Rag Archival Paper
    image 35 x 24.5 cm, 13 3/4 x 9 5/8 in
    Paper 42 x 29.7 cm, 16 9/16 x 11 11/16 in
  • The silence of the shells 1
    Sasha Bowles
    The silence of the shells 1, 2021
    Pigment Inkjet Print on 308 gsm Natural Soft White Cotton Rag Archival Paper
    image 27.5 x 16.8 cm, 10 13/16 x 6 5/8 in
    paper size 42 x 29.7 cm 16 9/16 x 11 11/16 in
Exhibitions