Sarah is thrilled to be a finalist in the 2022 Libris Awards at Artspace Mackay, Queensland with “Days of White Bluff:Codex”. Produced as part of The White Bluff Project the work will be featured in the awards exhibition from April 9 to June 19 2022, further information can be found here.

Installation image from The White Bluff Project exhibition at Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery Jan 2022, “Days of White Bluff:Codex” Image: Fire and Fly Media

Artist Statement: Days of White Bluff (Codex) was created as part of the White Bluff Project, a 3 year Art + Science collaboration. The work is an investigation of one micro aspect of the site, at the liminal edge where water and land meet. As quoted by Greg Elks, Plant Ecologist, it’s about exploring the “erosion and geology being exploited by nature “. My practice focuses on natural and man-made pattern and here I found nestled in rock cleaves, tiny ovoid, white Nerite snail eggs all jostling for protective positions. The intention was to record and exhaust subject but adhere to disciplined daily habits that are about intuition and happenstance. From the outset, the intimacy of creating and presenting in book form was the driving force, removing the traditional barrier of framing works on paper. As an artwork it is meant to be held, explored and contemplated.