Maria Farrar often paints scenes derived from her everyday life or from fragments of memories. A lady in a blue calming coat stands in the middle of the painting “Cause and Effect”, with her back facing the viewer. Farrar states that, “She is the strong woman present in all of us. She is the woman who knows the truth; that numbers ascribed to her are not a reflection of her true value as a rounded human being. She pauses when things are doubtful, and questions what is at stake when irrational obsession begins. When cause and effect is measured by rigid numbers, she stops to observe what is being measured and by whom. She knows she does not require a number for her self-worth, because she feels it already.”

[Maria Farrar] Born in 1988, Philippines, Farrar received her MFA from the Slade School of Art in 2016 and is currently based in London, UK. She has held solo exhibitions at Ota Fine Arts, Shanghai (2020), Tokyo (2019) and Singapore (2019), and mother’s tankstation, London (2018) and Dublin (2017). Selected group exhibitions include “Xenia: Crossroads in Portrait Painting”, Marianne Boesky Gallery – Chealsea, New York (2020), “Ways of Seeing”, Waltham Forest London Borough of Culture 2019 and the Government Art Collection, London, UK (2019), “Known Unknowns”, Saatchi Gallery, London (2018). Her works are in the collection of Magdalen College Library University of Oxford (Oxford) and AmC Collezione Coppola (Venice).