about sarah

Sarah Grounds is an artist and practice‑based PhD researcher whose work explores ontological collapse, the moment in which the boundaries between artist, material, and world dissolve. Working across photography, moving image, and installation, her practice does not represent posthuman theory but enacts it. Drawing on Karen Barad’s concept of intra‑action, she treats the studio as a dynamic environment in which materials, tools, and the body actively co‑produce the work. Rather than pursuing fixed outcomes, she works through cycles of emergence, reconfiguration, and return, allowing each piece to shift form as it moves through making, exhibition, and reuse.

 

Grounds has been politically and ecologically active for over 30 years, shaping both her life and practice. She lives in a zero‑carbon cabin that she built with her partner, where they live self‑sufficiently, embodying the ecological principles that underpin her work and research. This lived approach informs her methodology, grounding her practice in material responsibility, entanglement, and care.

In 2024, she received the Contemporary Art Society Wales Student Award, recognising the originality and depth of her emerging practice.

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(Photo by Jodi Evans-Morgan)