Sarah Taylor Silverwood is an artist based in Birmingham. She grew up in The Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire.
Sarah’s drawing practice works across animation, illustration, textiles, ceramics, sculpture, public art and print. She creates artwork and projects for exhibitions, the public realm, participatory settings, books, and the home. Combining her interests in making, storytelling and working with other people, she produces solo projects for organisations and galleries, and works collaboratively with artists, groups, collectives and socially-based initiatives.
Sarah explores different themes, subjects and stories, revisiting narratives, imagery, language and people that have become fixed by familiarity, a particular time, attitude or viewpoint. Through her drawing, she reanimates them, creating renewed visibility, a shifted perspective or an updated relevance for them in the present day. She is continually researching making techniques and experimenting with materials, developing the practical application of her drawing in response to the ideas, environments, people and objects she is working with.
Current projects include new public art works with Hospital Rooms (2024), Eastside Projects (2024) and Fermynwoods (2023). Recent solo projects 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. Her studio is at Grand Union and she is also a co-director member of Modern Clay, a co-operative ceramics studio in Birmingham.
You can buy work here in shop updates every few months, and it is also sold at Studio Outlet, Rabbits Road Press and East Bristol Contemporary.
Get in touch if you’d like to say hi: hello@sarahsilverwood.com
News:
Eastside Projects - Digbeth Public Art Project 2023
What are the Art Jobs? Zine made with Sofia Niazi, buy a copy at Rabbits Road Press
Love Bugs is at Overlap Animation Festival, 19 May 2022
Love Bugs is at Flatpack Film Festival, 21 May 2022
Cardiff Animation Festival Q&A with Sam Moore, Sunday 10 April 4pm
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
