
Sarah Collins is an interdisciplinary artist with a background in biology currently based in Spain. Working primarily with photography and textile art, she explores different aspects of identity, shifting between a dynamic interaction with her environment and a more introspective process.
In photography, she creates images that reflect the humor, beauty, and strangeness of the human experience. Her work seeks to embrace the act of noticing and to challenge the perceived barriers beween us, preserving moments of shared space, no matter how brief. Through an intuitive approach to taking pictures, she is interested in capturing and combining seemingly incompatible ideas and images. In doing so, she attempts to ease the tension between perceived incongruencies in both the world and within herself. By welcoming the contradictions in her work and her own experience, she hopes to create a space where others are encouraged to do the same.
Her textile art techniques often involve a degree of repetition and detail that she embraces as a meditative process reflecting inner patterns of joining, rearranging, and deconstructing. She prioritizes working with found, second-hand, and repurposed materials. The uncertainity of their origins and the limitations of what can be acquired introduce an element of chance to her work, driving a sense of curiosity and play in her creative process. By reimagining what already exists, she resists the rapid cycles of modern production and disposal.