Sarah Roberts

Sarah Roberts is interested in our capacity for momentary encounters with the actuality of the world – primarily with visible surfaces of architecture, landscape and body. Moments in which peripheral surfaces are seen as collisions in form and colour, reverberated into ‘matter’ that invites us to re- encounter the thingness of objects and the power of visually driven connections.
Roberts creates collages, drawings, sculpture and text works, alongside an immersive installation practice using sculpture, large format print, found objects, textiles, sound, moving image, fragrance and whatever else is drawn into her material conversation with the tactility of her place of provenance as she researches, meticulously collecting the scent, the sensation and the hue of a suburban concrete driveway, a casino carpet or a cliff edge. She describes her process as a remaking of the palettes of these collected places she deems materially seductive, making non-representational representations through a process of labour and experimentation in the studio. The final works seem to encompass the original site, the artist’s studio and the final site of exhibition, aiming to create new site specific yet displaced material heterotopias for the viewer t...

Chelsea College of Art, BA Fine Art [2011-14]

Chelsea College of Art & Design, Foundation Diploma in Art & Design [2009-11]

The University of Leeds, BA Sociology [1998-2001]

AWARDS
JUL 2014/ NEW SENSATIONS 2014 [Saatchi Art]: Nominee
JUN 2014/ EXPOSURE 14 [Parasol Unit foundation for contemporary art] :Award Winner
JUN 2014/ Chelsea Studio Award 2014 [ACME]: Nominee

SOLO SHOWS
06 November -04 December 2019
Everything's Mustard; PICNIC London
26 November -29 December 2018
CLOD DI ; Arcade, Cardiff.
03 May –20 May 2018
THE COLOUR PURPLE ; Art Lacuna, London.
07 April –06 May 2017
TORREMOLINOS TABLEAUX TONGUE TWISTER (AFTER SUN) ; Block 336, London.

GROUP SHOWS
WAYS & MEANS; SKELF, online Aug -Oct 2020
One of One; After Projects, London
April 2019
LOTUS EATERS; Aindrea Contemporary, London
15 November– 29 November 2018
SPLASH; Shelf Spanish City, Whitley Bay, Newcastle
02 August– 27 August 2018
FEMALE TROUBLE ; The Bomb Factory, London. 26 September– 08 October 2017
Window Shopping Chisenhale Art Place, London 20.10-22.10 2017
FRESH_MEET [EBC 014] East Bristol Contemporary, Bristol 01.09-03.09 2017
HOWLER UnitE,Cardiff
September 2017.
Identify your limitations, acknowledge your periphery; VITRINE, Basel 11 June 2017 - 3 September 2017
THE HIGH LOW SHOW ; Laure Genillard, London.
12 Jan – 29 Jan 2017
SURFACE TREATMENT; PERICLO, Wrexham.
19 May -07 July 2017
SellYourSelf ; East Street Arts; 130 Vicar Lane, Leeds. 03Nov –13Nov2016
MINCE ; curated by SHELF London; 11 Market Way, London. 15 Oct 2016 – 14 Jan 2017
I’m So Virtual I’m Violent ; Ha Ha Gallery, Southampton.
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