After Francis Bacon (Self-Portrait) #2 Ed. 1 of 1

As an artist majoring in painting I found a commonality between Francis Bacon's work and my own through a similarity in our process, which is using photographs. To create my self-portraits I decided to focus on the immediacy/ chance of accidents, as indeed he would. I painted my face and tried to rearrange my features through movements to mimic the flow of Bacon’s brushstrokes, in a heated frantic movement, showing a sense of destruction and ambiguity (as seen in Bacon's artworks) in my portraits, captured by a camera.

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Sara Sohrabian is a multidisciplinary artist who lives and works in Sydney (Gadigal Country). Born in Tehran, Iran, in 1989, she holds a Master of Art from UNSW Art & Design and a Graduate Diploma in Education.

Her practice spans painting, drawing, photography, printmaking, and mixed media, moving fluidly across disciplines according to conceptual intent. She often integrates these approaches within a single work, combining materials and processes to explore how form and meaning can be expanded beyond medium-specific boundaries.

Sohrabian’s work engages with themes of selfhood, spirituality, femininity, and belonging, shaped by experiences of displacement, migration, and cultural memory. Drawing on her Iranian heritage and lived experience in Australia, her practice considers how identity is formed and re-formed across shifting cultural and geographic contexts.

Through layered visual and material languages, her work reflects on the relationship between memory, place, and the construction of personal and collective narratives.