SARAH WRIGHT STUDIO

MULTIDISCIPLINARY EXPLORATIONS OF FORM AND MOVEMENT

Diverse mediums converge to explore the fleeting nature of existence and interaction within our surroundings. This evolving multimedia body of work explores the presence in working with surrounding elements of the environment, rapidly capturing fragmented layers of form across various materials. Each piece emerges as a response to the happenstance of the present moment, challenging the creative flow to adapt and evolve. This process embraces the unexpected, allowing chance encounters to shape the artwork's direction. The resulting multi-media compositions stand as visual testimonies to the temporal nature of being, offering glimpses into the complex interplay between self, community, and the ever-changing now.

About Sarah

SARAH WRIGHT STUDIO

MULTIDISCIPLINARY EXPLORATIONS OF FORM AND MOVEMENT

Diverse mediums converge to explore the fleeting nature of existence and interaction within our surroundings. This evolving multimedia body of work explores the presence in working with surrounding elements of the environment, rapidly capturing fragmented layers of form across various materials. Each piece emerges as a response to the happenstance of the present moment, challenging the creative flow to adapt and evolve. This process embraces the unexpected, allowing chance encounters to shape the artwork's direction. The resulting multi-media compositions stand as visual testimonies to the temporal nature of being, offering glimpses into the complex interplay between self, community, and the ever-changing now.

About Sarah

Fragments of ResPonsibility

Exploring the link between creation + accountability in ceramics, fragments of disregarded + destroyed works by other ceramicists are repurposed and reworked into questionably functional forms. Repurposing broken ceramics challenges a circular approach, prompting a re-evaluation of waste and a commitment to creative renewal. Each piece embodies a regenerative outlook + symbolizes both tangible + intangible responsibility.

OMNIPRESENCE

In the “Omnipresence" series, frenetically free-styled sketches are layered without a predetermined destination in mind. They are created over years during timed life drawing sessions, and exist as layered palimpsests of movement and presence. Without a predetermined destination, each piece accumulates traces of real-time gestures intertwined with echoes of past figures, all occupying the same spatial plane. This layering process becomes a visual exploration of temporal existence—capturing the fluidity of being, growing, and becoming. As figures overlap and intersect, they create a complex tapestry of interaction, not just between the drawn forms, but between various versions of the self across time. The resulting artworks stand as testament to the omnipresence of our past and present selves, how we interact in space with eachother while engaging in a silent dialogue of form and memory.

SHE COPIED ME: CAMCORDER FOOTAGE

My sister and I hiked through Eldfell, we moved until we found a non-descriptive area to paint a landscape for each other on a fragile piece of glass. The exercise was to paint one another into the landscape utilizing the same method. We wanted to show the differences between us. Even after we verbalized a strict methodology, we wielded different results.

As your body moves through a landscape that you trace, you may realise your perception always changes. As I tried and tried again to paint my sister, she moved within the landscape, holding a camera, and as a result instead of drawing one of her, I drew multiples of her.  This could show us that a human being can not grasp a landscape within a painting or reproduction, or even comprehend a body in totality by drawing a linear landscape, or taking a photograph simultaneously.

“Identity and resemblance would then be no more than inevitable illusions.”

Gilles Deleuze, Difference and Repetition