Image by Bronagh Lawson, Bbeyond
Sarah Riseborough
Sarah’s creative activities include abstract sculptural drawing, live art performance, and writing and performing mythical fiction and poetry. At the moment, the improvisation aspect of the work is most often in the form of mark-making on paper, which is then cut and supported as sculpture or sculptural installation. This is both a lone practise and presented as performance. Sometimes live performance includes stream of consciousness speaking or prepared text.
A stay on a land-centred community project in Northern Ireland recently came to an end and she is currently travelling between England, Ireland and Scotland.
Within the context of living within the community project, the drawing process explored the concerns of coming into right relationship with land, access to resources and what sustainable living might entail, encompassing, not just the practical, but, with cultivating equitable relationships within a diverse community of both human and more-than-human presence. Through informal research, questions arose about land sovereignty and land agenda, the tensions of human community needs, and also finding appropriate protocols, media and situations where findings could be shared.
Sarah writes intermittently on Substack and, recently, Clarion Poetry Magazine has accepted one of Sarah’s poems for its 3rd issue. She is working on a poetry collection entitled ‘Girl Child’.
https://sarahsilvermoon.substack.com/
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