Creating with my hands - crocheting, sewing, felting - is a
fundamental element in my work, as the manipulation of materials connects with
my whole body. My practice explores tacit and embodied knowledge through
repetitive action and creating in multiples. Being in the flow of making
multifarious forms while they build up shape, is labour intensive. Crafting each
piece is engaging tactility and physicality and is unfolding in time.
Much of my work is based on how belonging and feeling grounded in different environments affects us physically and emotionally. The materiality of the found, discarded or washed up object that operates within a cycle of decay and regeneration, recurrently shapes my association with place.
Working as an artist facilitator, where process is the catalyst and communication happens through making has infiltrated my practice.
Originally from County Louth in Ireland, I live and work in Southeast London.
Much of my work is based on how belonging and feeling grounded in different environments affects us physically and emotionally. The materiality of the found, discarded or washed up object that operates within a cycle of decay and regeneration, recurrently shapes my association with place.
Working as an artist facilitator, where process is the catalyst and communication happens through making has infiltrated my practice.
Originally from County Louth in Ireland, I live and work in Southeast London.
Contact
sarahjmcevoy@gmail.comEducation
2013 - 2015 UCL Institute of Education - MA Art & Design in Education
2006 - 2008 Goldsmiths University of London - MA Visual Anthropology
2001 – 2003 Goldsmiths University of London BA (Hons) Fine Art & Critical Theory
2000 –National College of Art & Design, Ireland 1st Year BA Fine Art
Exhibitions/screenings
2019 Cultural Patterns, works on paper, R.K Burt Gallery, 57-61 Union Street, London2019 Made 2019, Morley Gallery, 61 Westminster Bridge Road, London
2019 Inhabited Spaces, The Gallery Space the Island, Bridewell Street, Bristol, UK
2017 The Bumblebee House, Artists Open Houses, Brighton, UK
2016 Meet the Artists Orleans House Gallery , Tickenham, UK
2015 Nuts Open studio, Dragonfly Studio, Brockley, London
2015 IOE Art studios MA Art & Design in Education final show
2010 Platforma International Film Festival, ANTHROPOS – Athens Greece
2009 Willie O’Hagan St. Patrick’s Day online film festival
2009 International Film Festival Ireland, County Tipperary, Ireland
2009 Darklight Film Festival Dublin, Ireland
2008 The Fleapit, MAVIS final screening, London, UK
2004 London Film Academy
2003 ‘No Gods, No Masters (viva anarchy)’, The anarchists Bookshop, Whitechapel, London
2003 Candid Projection Room, Candid Arts Trust, London 2003 Still and Chew’ group show at Pilot Art Space, St. Leonards on Sea
2003 Lonomi (Low no budget moving image) 03’, South Street, Reading
2003 ICA, London screened as part of gallery talk entitled ‘Transparent Process’ by Juan Cruz