Land scape 2 Collage

Sarah Francis works with sculpture and photography exploring 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 artworks that intrude into the exhibition space using both playful and darker aspects that are a catalyst for audience interactions. Francis’ work centres around her neuro-diverse 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 Best Contemporary Artists in Europe.