about sarah

Sarah Grounds is a multimedia artist working predominantly with photography, performance, sculpture and moving image. She creates site specific installations, responding to the space, place, and time of the install.

 

Her work improvises around ideas of connection, isolation and freedom. Exploring Social Ecology, Permaculture and Gilles Deleuze’s concept of the Rhizome. She looks at how everything and everyone is connected, how this affects us all in worldly terms but also, how it affects her on a deeply personal level. She shares her thoughts, worries and joys about living in our modern, hierarchical society, touching on themes of class division, Feminism, and the unfolding climate crisis.

 

Sarah won the  Sybil Crouch Award in 2023 and has a year’s residency at UWTSD.

She also won the Alan Whatley Prize 2023 for photography and the BBA OneShot Award 2022.

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Sarah Grounds is studying an MA in Contemporary Dialogues at UWTSD Swansea College of Art.