Sarah Francis joined us as one of our three Convention House Residency seed commissions in 2022.
Sarah is a queer, neurodivergent artist working predominantly with sculpture and photography. She uses exhibition space, photographic lens and viewer interaction as key elements that define and frame the sculpture’s physical form while acknowledging its off-stage possibilities and capacity to morph within view.
Her sculptures both conform within and intrude beyond the physical space they occupy, replicating the acts of masking and framing that have characterised her neurodiverse and queer identity, and the energy spent meeting societally perceived norms.
Film and photography influence Sarah’s exploration of these dual identities, and the imperfection and ephemerality of memory, of what’s real or re-collected. Her sculptures playfully present multiple (framed & un-framed) realities, offering interpretations that hold darkness and joy.
