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Sarah

Darling

Disciplines: Mixed Media

Materials: Paper Cutting, Woven

www.sarahdarling.co.uk

The gift of a camera in my teens led me to photography and an ongoing fascination with the medium’s ability to capture light to share stories. I am never more at home than when I have a camera in my hands. Decades of photographic work and experimenting with breaking ‘the rules’ of photography inform my current practice, as I search for different ways to use photography to construct alternative narratives. Traditionally weaving serves a structural, functional purpose as well as a decorative one. In my work the intention of the weaving is to disrupt the structure of the photographic print amplifying the energy, flow and tension within the image. I take photographs whilst cold water swimming, and through weaving and collaging photographic prints I invite the viewer to share different experiences of being in the water; from the psychological and physiological effects to the sense of connection to people, place and the environment.

Previous Experience

2025 Visual Arts Scotland Biennial ‘The Thread That Pulls’, Nation Galleries Scotland. Scottish Landscape Awards, shortlisted, Kirkcudbright Galleries. Life With Water, SSA / An Tobar, 30×30 work selected for display alongside main exhibition. 2024 WOVEN, Foxyard Studios, Suffolk. Scottish Landscape Photographer of the Year (commended). Let’s Talk About, collaboration (Mull Youth Theatre / Royal Conservatoire of Scotland). Open Studios, An Tobar Arts Centre. 2023 Highland Games Art Exhibition, Tobermory 1st Prize in 2D category. 2021 Bones (photographs & video) An Tobar Arts Centre, 2018 Aros Revisited (photography & video) An Tobar Arts Centre. 2016 Focas, An Tobar Arts Centre. Luminate Photography Challenge exhibitions across Scotland. 2015 Behind the Scenes, solo exhibition, Calgary Café. 2012 work in Emma Herman Smith’s Forest Partners Project exhibition, An Tobar Arts Centre. 2011 Conversation, collaboration with artist Jenny Escritt, An Tobar Arts Centre. 2015-2023 Open Exhibitions An Tobar Arts Centre

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