BEGUN WITH 180 SCHOOL CHILDRENThese 3D pieces - each approximately 35x35x35cm, mixed media on paper and card with copper wire - started out as 2D collages, a continuation of the process of recycling collaborative murals from past workshops. At the suggestion of an artist friend,...
BEGUN WITH COMPANY STAFFAll Sorts. Open Door is a single mixed media collage piece on paper created from a large, collaborative floor painting made with staff members of a web design company. Designed as a team building activity, Sara encouraged freedom of expression with large...
Begun with art and film students and secondary school children During an AA2A residency at Arts University Plymouth in the UK, Sara was given the opportunity to fill an empty, spacious area of the drawing, painting and printmaking studio of the college with ‘tide marks of...
Begun with multiple beneficiariesAll mixed media on paper, these playful explorations in colour and light, texture and the circle motif, almost look like living organisms, multilayered and colour-saturated. Histories are exposed through traces of layers or others’ ‘lives’ seen beneath the surface.See below for workshop...
Begun with art and film students and secondary school childrenFor those more at home with the language of the written word than abstract art, for Sara, the Words series is a hook-in to a new language.The words in these 22cm x 22cm miniatures were taken...
Begun with prisonersThe Shared World series is an outcome of Sara’s collaboration with ten vulnerable male prisoners incarcerated at Dartmoor Prison. The finished pieces were installed for display both inside and outside the prison for public viewing. In the Arts Lab studio, Sara assembled each of...
BEGUN WITH YOUNG OFFENDERSSara’s installation Mulberry Detritus (approx. 350cm x 400cm), together with the 2D triptych Detritus, began as a 4.5 metre circular floor painting on paper, collaboratively-made with a group of young offenders during a rehabilitation workshop. Post session, alone in the studio, Sara...
BEGUN WITH FAMILY COMMUNITIES These two ‘floating’ paper panels were assembled by Sara as part of a series of installations by contemporary artists for Burn the Curtain - the Devon (UK)-based Interactive Promenade Theatre Company. Same-sized paper squares were cut out from a range of paper...
BEGUN WITH Talibé BOYS During a two-month artist residency at Dakar’s Village des Arts in Senegal, Sara created her Talibé Paintings - a series of pieces responding to and integrating drawings and paintings collaboratively created during workshops she ran with the talibé in Saint-Louis. Looking...
BEGUN WITH (i) YOUNG OFFENDERS and (ii) STUDENTS OF PEACE & CONFLICTSum of Parts has evolved over the years into an interactive 2D exhibition installation, and a peacebuilding toolkit, originally begun with young offenders and completed by Sara. A square of eight by eight independently...