SARAH FRANCIS
(b. 1982 Wrexham, Wales)
Sarah Francis works with sculpture to explore ideas of reality and representation. Fascinated with the uncanny duality of identity, the artist gathers and relocates particular events that were once lost, forgotten or left behind. Francis concentrates on intertwining traces of dreams and memories to create physical landscapes and portraits. This manifests itself through sculptural works that intrude into the exhibition space using both playful and darker aspects that are a catalyst for audience interactions.
Sarah’s work centres around her neurodiverse and queer identity building her own language and worlds to explore and understand ‘how I made me’ a reference to an early body of work that investigated her inner trauma and re-articulation of her current self.Her work has been shortlisted for the Saatchi Gallery’s Art of Giving Prize, selected by Richard Billingham for Curator’s Choice Noise Young Talent 2009, and recognised in Aesthetica’s 100 BestContemporary Artists in Europe. In addition to her work, Sarah Francis is the Founder and Director of Aire Place Studios, Leeds.
Land Yellow (2020)
Land Blue (2020)