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WRITING

 

2023. He Whom You Shall Love Is Absent: Words, Performance Publication funded by Arts Council, DYCP.

2023. Visual Commentary on Scripture, Kings College London.

2019. Essay on Alastair Gordon, at City and Guilds Residency, London

2019. "Touch me Not": The Stand-In, the Decoy and the Redeemer, performance lecture at Morphe Arts

2019. Exhibition Text, 'Black Stuff', Unit 3 Projects, London (Turps Painters)

2019. Essay on Matt Gee, exhibition at Husk Gallery, London.

2018. AMBIT Magazine, Review of 'Poetics. Trucks. Flood' by Michael Coppelov at Husk Gallery, London

    

LECTURES  

2021. Religion and Art Forum, UAL Arts Chaplaincy Projects and Goldsmiths Department of Art.

2017. A Study in Scatology & Repulsion, Morphē Arts

2017. Vulnerability, Temporality & Dystopia, Morphē Arts

  

PERFORMANCE

2023. For Some the Clouds Become Solid Ground, Art Night, Dundee, with tyroneisaactuart, and Nomas* Projects. 

2023. He Whom You Shall Love Is Absent, The Swiss Church London, Funded by Arts Council DYCP. 

2022. Untitled. Performed in the Shared Sky chapel installation by Es Devlin, at Saint Church, Hackney. 

2021. Exodysis I, The Swiss Church, London. Collaborative performance with tyroneisaacstuart and Abel Shah.

2021. You Shall Only Go Up and Not Down, St John's Church, Keswick.

2020. Traces of An Absent Body, Koppel Project, The Round Room, Holborn.

2019. "Touch me Not": the Stand-in, the Decoy and the Redeemer, Performance Lecture, Morphē Arts, with tyroneisaacstuart.

EXHIBITIONS

2023. For Some the Clouds Become Solid Ground, NOMAS Gallery, Art Night Dundee. (installation and film).

2021. Congregated, Deptford X Fringe, St Nicholas Church

2021. Last Sunset New Sunrise, Alter Us Collective, St John's at Bethnal Green

2019. Meals for One, Forum Artist Residency (installation)

2019. Fish, Birds, Fingers and Other Things, Deptford X Fringe

2019. The Taste of Home in the Wandering Body, All Saints Wandsworth

2018. Humble To The Ground, Laban Building Gardens (Trinity Laban), Deptford X Fringe

2018. At The Threshold, hARTslane, New Cross

2018. Paradise Underground, Sugar Cane Bar, Clapham

2018. Between Friends, St Stephen's Walbrook

2017. Show Home, Art Licks Weekend, The Old Police Station (Shortlisted for the Workweek Prize)

2017. ek(stasis), Deptford X Fringe, Archie's Bar, Deptford

2017. Cast of My Shape, 'Peace in it together bit by bit pt 3' Artist Series, 19 Goulston Steet

2016. MA Degree Show, Chelsea College of Art

2016. We/Us, Interim Exhibition, Chelsea College of Art

2015. Human Nature, The Archive Gallery, Haggerston

2015. P is For Process Project Part Time, Chelsea College of Art

2015. Connect & Grow, The Garden Museum with Siobhan Davies Dance.

2014. Tangent, MAFA Intro Show, Chelsea College of Art

2014. Stick 'Em Up, HUSK Gallery & Project Space

2013. Two Lines, Inside The White Cube, Trinity Buoy Wharf

2013. Strike Against Art Group Exhibition, The Nunnery Gallery

2012. In Unison, Empty Shop Project, Dorking

2011. BA Degree Show, The School of Art, Aberystwyth University

2010. Internal Traces, The Aberration Group. Gloucestershire Arts and Crafts Centre

  

PROJECTS/ RESIDENCIES

2020. Round Room Residency, Koppel Project, The Campus

2019. Forum Artist Residency, Installation

2014. Connect & Grow, Siobhan Davies Dance

2014. Interplay, Interface Arts Scotland, Leith School of Art

2013. Sharing Moving Making, Independent Dance

2013. (Artist Assistant/Intern) Hidden in Plain Sight: Re-Imagining History & Landscape, Nottingham Castle

2013. (Producer/Devised Theatre Collaboration) These Feet, Morphe Arts

2013. (Project/ Publication) Still Moving, Siobhan Davies Dance 

2013. Strike Against Art, Bow Arts and Morphe Arts, The Nunnery Gallery

2012. Only Connect Lab, Aberystwyth Arts Centre

2011. Empty Shop Project, Second Hand Dance

2011. (Collaborative Project & Performance) Dwsin y Daith and Rhuddem Dance Company

CONTACT

sarah_white16@hotmail.com / sarah@morphearts.org

Visual Arts Programme Curator (and Artist Mentor) at Morphē Arts

EDUCATION & TRAINING

Current. MA Creative Practice: Dance Professional, Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance (Leverhulme Scholarship)

2014 - 2016. MA Fine Art, Chelsea College of Art, London

2008 - 2011. BA Fine Art, University of Wales, Abersytwyth

 

2013. Studio Lighting, London School of Photography

2007 - 2008. elevate Dance Company (Springs Dance Company Apprenticeship Scheme)

 

 

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Sarah's work is rooted in the history of collaborative practice between dance and visual art. As an artist and researcher she is interested in developing new methodologies of engagement between art theory and practice, and theology. Her work manifests as installation and performance utilising a range of processes including movement improvisation, sound, text, casting, woodwork, painting, textiles and film. Sarah has a background in contemporary dance and for the past seven years her work has been underpinned by a conversation between movement research and visual art practice. Her work is centred upon the experience of trauma and loss within the body; the physical and mental relationship with - and longing for - home and for absent people; and how these embodied experiences can be understood through the theological and scriptural concepts of incarnation, resurrection and encounter with God in the body.

Her current work is focused on a (re-)integration of theological thinking into the language of performance art: exploring embodiment in dance through the lens of embodiment in theology: particularly that of Christology. Sarah's writing elaborates upon the themes of redemption, substitution, trauma and tacit/bodily knowledge as explored in Peggy Phelan's text, Mourning Sex. Following Sarah’s sabbatical research in 2021 her performances and writing have developed to explore orientational metaphors and bodily language within Old Testament/Hebraic scripture, and how these articulate what kind of encounter we can or cannot have with God through the language of the body. This language includes that of up and down, ascent and descent, high and low, rise and fall, and left and right.


Our physical body is the site we inhabit in the world. It is battered and bruised: a tangible testimony to what we have known. We carry with us in the body our memories and emotions of everything that has gone before, of everything that has been done to us and which have done. Alluding in part to the Entombment paintings, Sarah's work persistently presents an image of a falling, collapsed and entangled body: utilising tools of repetition, mimicry, and endurance to physically explore grief. 

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