Tide Mark

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 paint’. The brief was to energise a programme space shared by printmakers on the one side and painters on the other. She called it the Tide Mark Project. Walls and floors were the canvas on which passing students were invited to make their mark with pots of paint and household brushes, intuitively responding to marks, colours and shapes that had been made before them. Working with teenage children from local schools and students within the art college, Sara guided the collaborative transformation of a pristine white space into chaotic fields of colour and random forms.