About the artist
Although born on the South Coast of England, Sarah has lived all over the UK and now regards the Midlands as home.
Her initial entry point to art was through decorative art and crafts, but if she had to classify the type of work she makes now, she'd describe it as conceptual. She uses a variety of media although favouring found objects, collections, cardboard, paper and text. Her works tend to be playful, witty and accessible, but are many layered often with powerful messages which gradually creep up on the viewer.
Her pieces may be objects, images, films, animations or installations and deal with themes of both individual and collective identity and how they are shaped and moulded by physical, emotional and cultural environments. These ideas are, to a certain extent, explored in the theory of distributed cognition (see Edwin Hutchins' - Cognition in the Wild).
Her work explores how we all adapt our behaviour according to the circumstances and environment in which we find ourselves. Even when we think we are following our own path, it can be surprising or even disturbing how often those choices seem to show 'group thinking' rather than originality.
She has also been influenced by the work of Felix Gonzales-Torres and Santiago Sierra where they have extended the platform for their work far beyond the walls of the gallery space in which the pieces are located. Their subtle use of the interaction of the viewers to make the work happen in their installations has clearly intrigued this artist as demonstrated by pieces such as Play with Me, Shadows Passing, and Tadpoles Eat Their Dead.
Her initial entry point to art was through decorative art and crafts, but if she had to classify the type of work she makes now, she'd describe it as conceptual. She uses a variety of media although favouring found objects, collections, cardboard, paper and text. Her works tend to be playful, witty and accessible, but are many layered often with powerful messages which gradually creep up on the viewer.
Her pieces may be objects, images, films, animations or installations and deal with themes of both individual and collective identity and how they are shaped and moulded by physical, emotional and cultural environments. These ideas are, to a certain extent, explored in the theory of distributed cognition (see Edwin Hutchins' - Cognition in the Wild).
Her work explores how we all adapt our behaviour according to the circumstances and environment in which we find ourselves. Even when we think we are following our own path, it can be surprising or even disturbing how often those choices seem to show 'group thinking' rather than originality.
She has also been influenced by the work of Felix Gonzales-Torres and Santiago Sierra where they have extended the platform for their work far beyond the walls of the gallery space in which the pieces are located. Their subtle use of the interaction of the viewers to make the work happen in their installations has clearly intrigued this artist as demonstrated by pieces such as Play with Me, Shadows Passing, and Tadpoles Eat Their Dead.