About
Sara is a contemporary artist whose practice explores the intersections of memory, emotion and intuition through abstract mark making.
She mostly works with layered gestures and changing compositions. Her process is not rigidly planned; instead, each mark emerges in response to emotions, memories and the environment. This intuitive approach becomes a way of thinking, where meaning is not predetermined but is gradually revealed through accumulation, erasure and transformation.
Central to Sara's work is the recurring motif of the lily, drawn from observations of nature and its quiet cycles of growth, decay and renewal. Through abstraction, the form of the lily dissolves and reconstitutes across the surface, echoing the instability of memories and the shifting nature of personal experience.
Sara's paintings often use colour relationships and gesture contrasts to create tension and harmony. They show emotional states that are both intimate and distant. By navigating between control and spontaneity, Sara creates spaces that invite viewers to linger, reflect and project their own associations.
Pink Is My Favourite Colour
Pink Is My Favourite Colour is a personal body of work that reflects Sara's journey as a person and as an artist.
Lilies in her work function as a recurring motif to explore cycles of growth from girlhood to womanhood. The repetition of lilies across her paintings begins to act as a form of visual emplotment that accumulates gestures, memories and emotional states.
Each lily is not just an image but a trace of a moment, holding within it a fragment of her lived experience.
Research methodology and theoretical framework
This project adopts a practice-led methodology, where knowledge is generated through the process of painting itself. Central to the approach is abstract mark-making, used to explore time, memory and emotion that can be embedded materially through gesture, layering and repetition.
Rather than working towards a fixed outcome, each painting functions as a part of an evolving series. This allows meaning to emerge through variation and reworking. This iterative approach reflects the non-linear nature of personal experience, where moments are revisited and reinterpreted over time.
Documentation such as sketches, process images and reflective writing accompanies the studio work, forming an ongoing dialogue between making and thinking. Together, this methodology frames painting as both a visual and conceptual enquiry into temporality, identity and the act of seeing.
Yuni Sara Binte Hussaini
Sim Li Yan Emily
October Bong Man Won
Muhamad Erwan Afian
Ye Min Khant
Manasi Agrawal
