Sabrina Coleman-Pinheiro (b.1990) is a visual artist of Nigerian, British and Sudanese lineage based in Lagos. She has a B.A in Business and Fine Art.
Built up with thick layers of paint, Coleman- Pinheiro’s shroud-like figures emerge and recede into shadowy, formless landscapes, silent inhabitants of an unknowable world. These conjured figures, expressionist in their otherworldliness usher us into the unfathomable depths of the human mind, through emotional experiences and murky landscapes.Echoing the indeterminate, vast nature of the human mind, Coleman-Pinheiro’s textured canvases exist as ‘snapshots’ of an expanding, complex world, one that overwhelms and detaches, offering new depths and realities.
We find ourselves investigating the storied history and affective relationship between trauma, interpersonal relationships and the environment. How then do we construct processes and spaces of respite from mental trauma? In engaging with the complexly theorised sphere of the mind, how do we imagine procedures of care and destigmatisation?
Coleman-Pinheiro’s scenes are compositionally and texturally chaotic, from images of singular characters to closely packed figures. Yet, they present us with stillness, one prompted by an encounter with the intimate but unfamiliar. We recognise them in form, we might even find ourselves reflected in their silhouetted bodies, but the journey into their experiences and realities has only just begun. The paintings exist as pieces of a larger vista to which we must return in teasing out emotional experiences and responses from bodies going through a journey of healing.
She is inspired by Eugene Leroy, Kathe Kollwitz and Sam Gilliam.
She is currently represented by Rele Art Gallery
Built up with thick layers of paint, Coleman- Pinheiro’s shroud-like figures emerge and recede into shadowy, formless landscapes, silent inhabitants of an unknowable world. These conjured figures, expressionist in their otherworldliness usher us into the unfathomable depths of the human mind, through emotional experiences and murky landscapes.Echoing the indeterminate, vast nature of the human mind, Coleman-Pinheiro’s textured canvases exist as ‘snapshots’ of an expanding, complex world, one that overwhelms and detaches, offering new depths and realities.
We find ourselves investigating the storied history and affective relationship between trauma, interpersonal relationships and the environment. How then do we construct processes and spaces of respite from mental trauma? In engaging with the complexly theorised sphere of the mind, how do we imagine procedures of care and destigmatisation?
Coleman-Pinheiro’s scenes are compositionally and texturally chaotic, from images of singular characters to closely packed figures. Yet, they present us with stillness, one prompted by an encounter with the intimate but unfamiliar. We recognise them in form, we might even find ourselves reflected in their silhouetted bodies, but the journey into their experiences and realities has only just begun. The paintings exist as pieces of a larger vista to which we must return in teasing out emotional experiences and responses from bodies going through a journey of healing.
She is inspired by Eugene Leroy, Kathe Kollwitz and Sam Gilliam.
She is currently represented by Rele Art Gallery