Sahara Longe
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Sahara LongeArgument2023Oil on linen19 3⁄4 x 19 3⁄4 in. (50 x 50 cm)
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Sahara LongeGirls (Night Out)2023Oil on linen82 5⁄8 x 59 in. (210 x 150 cm)
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Sahara LongeNight Walk2023Oil on linen82 3⁄4 x 41 3⁄8 in. (210.3 x 105 cm)
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Sahara LongeOffice Scene2023Oil on linenEach panel: 88 ¾ x 61 in. (225.4 x 154.9 cm)
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Sahara LongeOffice Scene2023Oil on linen43 ½ x 37 ⅝ x 2 in. (110.5 x 95.6 x 5 cm)
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Sahara LongePolice Man2023Oil on linenEach panel: 94 1⁄2 x 78 3⁄4 in. (240 x 200 cm)
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Sahara LongeQueue2023Oil on linen19 3⁄4 x 21 5⁄8 in. (50 x 55 cm)
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Sahara LongeTender Kiss2023Oil on linen23 5⁄8 x 21 5⁄8 in. (60 x 55 cm)
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Sahara LongeTennis Club2023Oil on linen88 3⁄4 x 74 3⁄4 in. (225.5 x 190 cm)
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Sahara LongeFebruary 14th2022Oil on linen94 1⁄2 x 70 7⁄8 in. (240 x 180 cm)
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Sahara LongeTriptych: Man Stuff; Charisma; Just Introduced2022Oil on linen80 3⁄4 x 61 1⁄8 in. (205 x 155 cm)
80 3⁄4 x 61 1⁄8 in. (205 x 155 cm)
80 3⁄4 x 61 1⁄8 in. (205 x 155 cm)
I like paintings where you can share fleeting—but meaningful—moments.
Sahara Longe (b. 1994, London, United Kingdom) is a British figurative painter who lives and works in London. Longe trained for four years at the Florentine atelier Charles H. Cecil Studio, where she studied classical drawing and painting with an emphasis on creating portraits from live models. During this time, Longe learned traditional oil-paintings techniques used by the old masters, which she continues to employ in her work today. She is celebrated for her soft, flat-edged portraits that capture the essences of their sitters with minimal details.
Longe positions her subjects against semi-abstracted backgrounds, using rich swaths of carmine, chartreuse, and dove grey. Her sitters’ eyes do not meet our own but stare into the middle distance as if preoccupied or lost in their own worlds. Their quiet faces are barely delineated but recognizable by the tilt of a head or the bend of arms where hands are stuffed in pockets. As the artist has described, she was struck by a friend’s observation that one “can recognize someone you know just by the back of them, just by the way they stand and by the way they use their hands,” and her paintings in oil on linen tenderly capture these identifying gestures.
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Birdsong
13 July - 11 August 2023 LondonTimothy Taylor is pleased to present Birdsong, a group exhibition of works showcasing influential voices in contemporary British art, at the gallery’s London space. Spanning genres and generations, Birdsong presents an eclectic group of works by UK-based and British artists including Tomo Campbell, Daniel Crews-Chubb, Tracey Emin, Emma Fineman, Rowley Haynes, Sophie von Hellermann, Chantal Joffe, Idris Khan, Rachel Kneebone, Richard Long, Sahara Longe, Annie Morris, Richard Patterson, Andrew Pierre Hart, Paula Rego, Catherine Repko, Anne Rothenstein, Yinka Shonibare CBE, Antonia Showering, and Rachel Whiteread. This program supports The Royal Marsden, a world-leading cancer research centre and hospital in London.View More -
Sahara Longe
New Shapes 2 June - 8 July 2023 LondonTimothy Taylor is pleased to present New Shapes, a new exhibition by British artist Sahara Longe (b. 1994), on view at the London gallery from 2 June to 8 July 2023. This is the artist’s first solo exhibition with the gallery and first solo exhibition in the UK, which will be followed by a solo presentation of paintings at Frieze Seoul in September 2023.View More -
IRL (In Real Life)
8 July - 21 August 2021 LondonTimothy Taylor is delighted to present IRL (In Real Life), a group exhibition of paintings, sculptures and textile-based works. The title of the exhibition draws from a phrase popularised on the Internet in the mid-1990s, which refers to the division in social relationships between life online and offline—the ‘real one’. Yet in the context of a pandemic that profoundly reduced human contact, cyberspace has come to dominate the ways we work, socialise and connect with the world, blurring the distinction between real and virtual experiences. IRL features work by Kesewa Aboah, Rebecca Ackroyd, Alma Berrow, Lily Bertrand-Webb, Will Brickel, Sahara Longe, Lydia Pettit, Jiab Prachakul, Alexis Ralaivao, Erin M. Riley, Antonia Showering and Honor Titus.View More
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Sahara Longe: The British artists bringing hope to a slumping market
Colin Gleadell, The Telegraph, 4 July 2023 -
Sahara Longe and Honor Titus: Windrush 75th anniversary marked by series of royal art commissions including portraits by Sonia Boyce and Amy Sherald
Gareth Harris, The Art Newspaper, 22 June 2023 -
Windrush generation celebrated in a series of 10 portraits – in pictures
The Guardian, 22 June 2023 -
King Charles unveils Windrush portraits in hope Britain will ‘always embrace differences’
India McTaggart, The Telegraph, 22 June 2023 -
At 29, Sahara Longe Has the Art World at Her Feet
Funmi Fetto, Vogue, 18 June 2023 -
Sahara Longe Talks to Phillip Edward Spradley
Phillip Edward Spradley, FAD Magazine, 16 June 2023 -
Mystery Guests, Sahara Longe
Financial Times, 4 September 2022
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Sahara Longe and Honor Titus | Windrush: Portraits of a Pioneering Generation
National Portrait Gallery 9 October 2023Commemorating the 75th anniversary of HMT Empire Windrush's arrival in Britain, Windrush: Portraits of a Pioneering Generation is a display of ten portraits, highlighting the...Read more -
Windrush: Portraits of a Generation
BBC 30 July 2023Marking the 75th anniversary of the arrival of HMT Empire Windrush to British shores in 1948, this documentary follows a remarkable project spearheaded by the...Read more -
King commissions Windrush portraits
Art Industry 22 June 2023King Charles has commissioned ten portraits of members of the Windrush generation to mark the arrival of the Empire Windrush at Tilbury in 1948. “It...Read more -
Honor Titus and Sahara Longe commissioned by His Majesty the King to contribute paintings to The Windrush Portraits Project
22 June 2023Timothy Taylor is delighted to announce that Honor Titus and Sahara Longe are among ten leading international artists commissioned by His Majesty the King to...Read more -
Sahara Longe Joins Timothy Taylor
5 April 2022Timothy Taylor is delighted to announce the representation of British artist Sahara Longe (b. 1994, London, UK). The gallery will present a solo exhibition of...Read more