Sarah Darling
- Work
- Biography
Sarah is a photographer and artist, documenting projects, events, and performance. Over the years she has developed her own style, telling stories and capturing moments of quiet intimacy. Alongside this she also experiments with a more abstract fine art approach to creating work.
During lockdown she taught herself to weave on a small loom and started using images from her archive. Photographs were deconstructed and then woven to create new narratives. More recently she was introduced to cold water swimming. It quickly became addictive and being a photographer she naturally found a way to take a camera with her.
Her current work uses photographic images captured in the sea, lochans and quarries near where she lives. These are taken apart and then physically woven back together in such a way that speaks to the experience of reorientation, transformation and connection that cold water swimming offers. Her interest in exploring the physical boundaries of the photograph creates work of a more tangible and tactile nature which she hopes will lead to a deeper, more personal connection between the viewer and the work.
Sarah was recently shortlisted for the Scottish Landscape Awards 2025, and currently has work at An Tobar Arts Centre and Calgary Gallery, Mull.
During lockdown she taught herself to weave on a small loom and started using images from her archive. Photographs were deconstructed and then woven to create new narratives. More recently she was introduced to cold water swimming. It quickly became addictive and being a photographer she naturally found a way to take a camera with her.
Her current work uses photographic images captured in the sea, lochans and quarries near where she lives. These are taken apart and then physically woven back together in such a way that speaks to the experience of reorientation, transformation and connection that cold water swimming offers. Her interest in exploring the physical boundaries of the photograph creates work of a more tangible and tactile nature which she hopes will lead to a deeper, more personal connection between the viewer and the work.
Sarah was recently shortlisted for the Scottish Landscape Awards 2025, and currently has work at An Tobar Arts Centre and Calgary Gallery, Mull.
2025
Scottish Landscape Awards, Kirkcudbright Galleries
Life With Water - SSA in collaboration with An Tobar, 30x30 work selected for display alongside main exhibition
2024
WOVEN, Foxyard Studios, Suffolk
Scottish Landscape Photographer of the Year (online) - commended
Let’s Talk About, collaboration with Mull Youth Theatre and Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
Open Studios, An Tobar Arts Centre
2023
Highland Games Open Art Exhibition, Tobermory 1st Prize in 2D category
Drawn, An Tobar Arts Centre Open Exhibition
2021
Hidden, An Tobar Arts Centre Open Exhibition
Bones (photography & video), An Tobar Arts Centre
2020
Pandemonium, An Tobar Arts Centre Open Exhibition
2019
Yellow, An Tobar Arts Centre Open Exhibition
2018
Aros Revisited (photography & video), An Tobar Arts Centre
Found, An Tobar Arts Centre Open Exhibition
2017
re.evolution, An Tobar Arts Centre Open Exhibition
2016
Focas, work celebrating music, drama and art on Mull
Luminate Photography Challenge 2016 pop up exhibitions across Scotland
ICE, An Tobar Arts Centre Open Exhibition
2015
Common Ground, An Tobar Arts Centre.
Work in Emma Herman Smith’s retrospective A Life In Art, Edinburgh’s Gayfield Creative Spaces
Behind the Scenes, solo exhibition at Calgary Café
2014
Ilana Halperin's Learning to Read Rocks workshop in 'Clach Pàpear Siosar' An Tobar Arts Centre
Image selected for 'The Environment of the Hebrides; what matters to you’ An Lanntair, Stornoway
2012
Images & video in Emma Herman Smith’s Forest Partners Project exhibition at An Tobar Arts Centre
2011
Conversation, collaboration with artist Jenny Escritt, An Tobar Arts Centre
Scottish Landscape Awards, Kirkcudbright Galleries
Life With Water - SSA in collaboration with An Tobar, 30x30 work selected for display alongside main exhibition
2024
WOVEN, Foxyard Studios, Suffolk
Scottish Landscape Photographer of the Year (online) - commended
Let’s Talk About, collaboration with Mull Youth Theatre and Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
Open Studios, An Tobar Arts Centre
2023
Highland Games Open Art Exhibition, Tobermory 1st Prize in 2D category
Drawn, An Tobar Arts Centre Open Exhibition
2021
Hidden, An Tobar Arts Centre Open Exhibition
Bones (photography & video), An Tobar Arts Centre
2020
Pandemonium, An Tobar Arts Centre Open Exhibition
2019
Yellow, An Tobar Arts Centre Open Exhibition
2018
Aros Revisited (photography & video), An Tobar Arts Centre
Found, An Tobar Arts Centre Open Exhibition
2017
re.evolution, An Tobar Arts Centre Open Exhibition
2016
Focas, work celebrating music, drama and art on Mull
Luminate Photography Challenge 2016 pop up exhibitions across Scotland
ICE, An Tobar Arts Centre Open Exhibition
2015
Common Ground, An Tobar Arts Centre.
Work in Emma Herman Smith’s retrospective A Life In Art, Edinburgh’s Gayfield Creative Spaces
Behind the Scenes, solo exhibition at Calgary Café
2014
Ilana Halperin's Learning to Read Rocks workshop in 'Clach Pàpear Siosar' An Tobar Arts Centre
Image selected for 'The Environment of the Hebrides; what matters to you’ An Lanntair, Stornoway
2012
Images & video in Emma Herman Smith’s Forest Partners Project exhibition at An Tobar Arts Centre
2011
Conversation, collaboration with artist Jenny Escritt, An Tobar Arts Centre
- Sarah Darling
- Reset 1
- Mixed Media
- Sarah Darling
- Anamnesis
- Mixed Media
- Sarah Darling
- Holding Fast
- Mixed Media
- Sarah Darling
- Reorientation 1
- Mixed Media
- Sarah Darling
- Where The Mind Goes
- Mixed Media
- Sarah Darling
- All I Need Is Here
- Mixed Media
- Sarah Darling
- Champagne In My Veins
- Mixed Media
- Sarah Darling
- Against the Tide
- Mixed Media
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