Sarah Silverwood is an artist working across drawing, ceramics, animation and print. Her practice is all about playful storytelling, material experimentation and site-responsive design. Her cartoon worlds are full of psychedelic flora, stylish boots, amorphous rock forms, frantic figures and fast cars.
Working across both gallery and public contexts, she creates artworks that are shaped by how people use and inhabit them. She is interested in the way stories become embedded within materials, and how thoughtful design can create opportunities for connection. Sarah’s drawing-centred approach combines careful research with an interest in materiality and craft.
Sarah has worked with galleries, museums, universities, arts organisations, architects and local authorities, creating projects that span exhibitions, public artworks, publications, moving image, and site-specific installations.
Current projects include a film commission with Animate Projects (2025-26), Artist in Residence at Warwick Arts Centre (2025-26), new public art works with Hospital Rooms (2024), Eastside Projects (2025), Meadow Arts (2025) and Fermynwoods (2023). Recent solo exhibitions include Love Bugs at Chapter, Cardiff (2021), Daphne at Aspex Portsmouth (2020) and The New Art Gallery Walsall (2019), and Crowd Show at NN Contemporary (2018). Sarah was artist in residence at The British Consulate in Chicago (2014) and The University of Birmingham (2013), and recipient of the 2019 Feeney Fellowship.
Get in touch if you’d like to say hi! hello@sarahsilverwood.com
Sarah also runs Sunday Tiles, a bespoke ceramic tile studio.
News:
Artist in Residence at Warwick Arts Centre 2025-26
Animate Projects ROAM film commission 2025-26
Common Ground Artist in Residence, March - July 2025
Recipient of the Eaton Fund grant 2025
Comfort Near Me, film about artist studios, Grand Union, 2025
Eastside Projects - Digbeth Public Art Project 2023-5
What are the Art Jobs? Zine made with Sofia Niazi, buy a copy at Rabbits Road Press
Selected Press and Texts:
a-n - The Week’s Top Exhibitions
Text by Angela Kingston on New Art West Midlands
Text by Anneka French for Longbridge Public Art Project
