The dying of painter Sarah Cunningham at 31 final yr was unintended, in keeping with a brand new inquest.
The summary painter, who was represented by Lisson Gallery, was reported missing on November 3 after an evening out in London. She was final seen at 2:30 a.m. on November 2 on Jamestown Highway in Camden.
Her dying was confirmed three days later by the gallery after stories of a casualty on the tracks at Chalk Farm Underground Station.
On April 9, London’s Poplar Coroner’s Courtroom decided that Cunningham had jumped down onto the northbound observe at round 3:30 a.m. earlier than strolling into the tunnel. A practice hit her 18 minutes later. In a press release despatched to Artnet Information, the coroner mentioned, “Though she jumped down onto the observe reasonably than falling, she didn’t kind the intention to take her personal life.” The report said that the artist was intoxicated on the time.
Final November, Lisson wrote on Instagram, “We’re devastated to substantiate the dying of Sarah Cunningham. Sarah was an extremely gifted, clever, and authentic artist who we have now all referred to as a good friend. Her work are genuine, intuitive, and pure with the uncooked energy to right away foster connections with others – qualities mirrored in Sarah’s personal indomitable character.”
Cunningham was born in 1993 in Nottingham, England. She attended Loughborough College’s artwork program as an undergraduate, disregarding her mom’s needs that she not pursue a profession as an artist, and commenced making collages about how scientists use taxonomy to categorize the pure world. “I’ve all the time discovered that mind-set problematic,” she advised Artsy.
In 2018, Cunningham participated within the La Wayaka Present Artist Residency in Armila, Panama. She attended London’s famed Royal Faculty of Artwork for an MFA in 2019, graduating in 2022. That very same yr, she had her first solo present at Almine Rech gallery in New York. The exhibition offered out the weekend earlier than it opened.
Success continued to comply with the subsequent yr, when Lisson Gallery added her to its roster. Lisson gave the painter her London solo debut in 2023 adopted by a Los Angeles exhibition earlier this yr.
In a 2022 interview with Art Plugged, Cunningham defined her artwork as a type of self-exploration. “Each and making artwork, it’s a means of processing my life,” she mentioned. “It makes me really feel that my life is part of this universe.”
