About Sara

Through the ploy of intergenerationally passed down recipes and stories from women in my family, I use food to examine the relationship between the personal and social in my art practice. I foreground collective care to playfully decipher feelings of otherness by forging new spaces within pre-existing ones as acts of reclamation and remapping of my personal history. 

My interdisciplinary approach predominantly utilises installation to move between a socially engaged and experimental moving image-based practice. These installations operate as intimately curated sites of nurture that invite conversations and spaces for both artists and non-artists to co-exist. I want to create spaces where both my aunties and artist peers can sit and reflect together, comfortably. Motivated by the agency this gives back to the otherwise passive viewer, the public is often invited to physically interact with my works - A thread that also carries through strongly within my pedagogical and curatorial practice. Sitting within this horizontal plane for me are stories both nostalgic and unknown which are constantly shared and retranslated.

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Seeking to create alternative platforms that nourish ideas of genuine collaboration and support for creatives of colour at early stages in their career, I formed Otherly, alongside Morisha Moodley in 2019, whilst still in Arts education during our BAFA @ CSM. I currently work there as an Associate Lecturer and encourage this in my teaching and regular workshops with students.