Sarah Strachan

In my transdisciplinary practice I sense environmental changes through deep conversations with people, place, the land and the materials and objects associated with these. I am interested in how our perception of being in, knowing and belonging to the world affects our ecological awareness and thinking. 

I explore my ideas through printmaking, painting, and ceramics; often fusing sound and/or moving image into the final installation. Working with ceramics allows me to explore complex issues of sustainability through my choice of materials and process – working with manufactured, recycled and wild clay. Collaboration is an important element whether as an independent artist, working as artist duos Itiswhatitis and The Anxiety of Interdisciplinarity or as art, geology and sound collaborative Mud Collective. 

For me, conversation provides a consistent, systematic approach to analysis, knowledge production, poetics and meaning; whilst proto-chaotic or chance encounters lead to empty moments or drifts in thought, space and time. Drawing on this methodology of ‘conversational drift’, my work seeks to question or disrupt habitual perspectives through the liminality of objects, materials and the spaces I create
 

Developing from a series of works inspired by a conversation with a climate scientist, the Stratosphere series reflects on the hidden dynamics of the upper atmosphere and its affects on our
weather systems.

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Stoneware Ceramic

10x10x5cm