ARTIST BIOGRAPHY

Since borrowing her grandfather’s camera at age eleven, Sarah has continued to take pictures using familial subjects to document everyday life and surroundings. Living in one of the most densely populated areas of London Sarah looked at creating a tranquil observation of nature, light and space. 

Following a degree in fashion design Sarah worked as a fashion stylist and then set designer for the fashion industry, including projects for The V and A, Dover Street Market London and London Fashion Week. This led to her following her passion for photography and collaborating with a designer to create a large body of images connecting fashion with nature and landscape. 

Earlier in her career Sarah lectured within schools across London creating new art curriculums in order to facilitate and encourage the teaching of art by untrained practitioners - understanding that providing a creative experience for children can be very daunting. After studying Fine Art Photography at Westminster University London Sarah continued to develop her own identity of work which enables her to experiment with techniques at the time of shooting rather than in post-production, working on both personal projects and commercial work. Lying under glass sheets in the rain is a common activity. Working without post-production or digital manipulation, the photographs are ‘edited’ at the time of shooting, in or in front of the camera using colour gels, waste materials and plastics. This hands-on method serves to diffuse the clarity of digital photography and create a more painterly image. Using a variety of non-digital effects, Sarah incorporates her experience as a set designer to inform her decisions on props, content and composition

“My work is often based around a single image I have visualised or frequently inspired by other photographers and painters working in different fields such as fashion, documentary and still life. In any image it may be the colour, background, or the mood. The journey of the image starts at one point and transforms through many stages until reaching that moment of completion.” 

Sarah’s move out of the city has enabled her to look at the importance of protecting the natural environment and ways of bringing this to a wider audience. 

Current projects include a series looking at our relationship with ageing “Unseen” selected for The Royal Photographic Society IPE 165 group show. Her work was chosen for the Royal Academy Summer Show 2023 and was shown at PHOTO London, 2024. She recently had a solo show in collaboration with British fashion designer Molly Goddard at Chelsea Space, London. Goddard’s work remains an ongoing inspiration for her work.