“You know when you find something in your pocket that you’d picked up then forgot? Familiar but unknown, a wee treasure, your fingers feel around its surfaces, its edges. Not till you pull it out of your pocket and see it in your hand do you know what it is. My art is about exploring the shapes and edges of stuff, kind of like that.” SK

Born and trained in England (MA & BA, The University of Leeds) spent part of her childhood in Kenya and moved up from London (where she was inhouse global artist for Arup, founding The Penguin Pool event series, and also a Trustee of ACME) to Glasgow in 2017. Founder of K U D I R K A ‘sometimes space’ in 2024.

Her semi-abstract work is resolutely low-tech; characterised by iteratively reworked, trashed, scratched, finely lined and layered paint surfaces. Currently working with shell-like forms and bowls/small boats, she draws out metaphors for diaspora, ideas around migrant journeys across oceans and our human capacity for compassion.

Over recent years Sarah has turned from looking up at the sky in cities to exploring softer-edged forms, reimagined from Scottish shorelines and the isles. Cove residency brings the artist invaluable time away from her studio practice to draw, walk and think and organise her ideas for new work.