Placeholder, Nottingham

Placeholder presents a new body of work by the Nottingham-based artist Sarah Poots within the no-longer-occupied spaces around her studio in the city’s Lace Market.

Within this context familiar painterly motifs such as drapery and candles appear both as cut outs and ‘stand ins’—as fragments arranged over surfaces, allowing connections to be drawn between paintings and across rooms.

Littered with handed tied mementos, the relationship to touch is central within these works, that which is close at hand is used to craft and signal memorialisation.

Here, it is the slight, the personal and the sentimental which is given space and time to hold our attention.