Sarah Catterall is a dual-national [American and British] conceptual artist, filmmaker and curator.
Through the use of photography, field recordings, collage, language and readymades they use an auto-ethnographic approach that is shaped by memories of experiencing *jamais vu and feeling like a perpetual tourist.
Recent installation work has been intentionally participatory: inviting visitors to touch and move, contribute to, or pick up and listen to, or take home some of their artworks. This flexible participation allows for levels of interpretation by the visitor which engages further with ideas of [mis]communication, autonomy, perception and confession.
[*a sensation which occurs when a familiar situation or place begins to feel uncanny, new or strange. As if you have lost fluency]
Born in Bellevue, Washington, USA, 1999.
Lives and works in Oxford, England.
Education/training:
2019 - 2023 BFA Fine Art, The Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford, Oxford, England.
2018 - 2019 Art Foundation Level 3 + 4 UCL, Chesterfield College, Chesterfield, England.
2018 - 2018 Silver Arts Award, UCL, Buckingham Palace, London, England.
2017 - 2018 Silver Arts Award, BFI Film Academy, Sheffield, England.
Selected Exhibitions:
2024
Elevenses (group exhibition), Ugly Duck, London, England.
Big 20 (group exhibition), OVADA, Oxford, England.
Behind the Scenes (curator), OVADA, Oxford, England.
2023
Assorted Moments (solo exhibition), Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, England.
‘23 Ruskin (Degree Show), The Ruskin School of Art, Oxford, England.
2021
Rhizome Renga (group exhibition), Industry Magazine, Oxford, England.
2020
EMPRES:The Art of Noises V[irtual] (group exhibition), Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, England.
Awards:
2023 CVAN SE Platform Graduate Award (selected), Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, England.
2020 EMPRES Award 2020: MIXER//SHREDDER (finalist), Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, England.
Professional contributions:
2024 - Today
Studio assistant to artist Saroj Patel, Oxford, England.
Marketing Coordinator, OVADA Warehouse Gallery, Oxford, England.
Freelance art, exhibition and event documentation, Oxford, England.
2024
Curator, ‘Behind The Scenes’, OVADA Warehouse Gallery, Oxford, England.
Photographer (artist’s portfolio), Helen Kohl, Oxford, England.
Cinematographer + editor (artist’s film), Ocean Mother by Saroj Patel, London, England.
Cinematographer + editor (artist’s film/performance), Mother of Pearl by Helen Kohl, Oxford, England.
Costume designer (short film), Hoard dir. Emma Heaton, Sheffield, England.
2023
Workshop tutor (sound art + plaster casting), Holding Moments in collaboration with artist Helen Kohl at Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, England.
Workshop tutor (walking + drawing + frottage), Unfolding Moments from Modern Art Oxford to The Kidneys, Oxford, England.
Cinematographer + editor (documentary film), Diwali Glow for OVADA Gallery, Oxford, England.
Photographer (artist’s live performance), Containing the Tide by Helen Kohl, Oxford, England.
Actor (short film), Gorgon dir. Emma Heaton, Sheffield, England.
Actor + Costume designer (short film), Locked - In dir. Jayne Slater, Sheffield, England.
2022
Costume design + supervision (short film), Breakable dir. B. Welby, National Film and Television School, Beaconsfield, England.
Costume design + supervision (TV pilot), Mother of the Year dir. Anoushka Santella, Sheffield, England.
Costume design + supervision (music video), Malevolence: Higher Place dir. Hugh Mann Adamson, Enon Films, Sheffield, England.
Costume design + supervision (short film), Baked Beans dir. Hugh Mann Adamson, Enon Films, Sheffield, England.
2021
Sound editor (radio drama), The Arnolfini Portrait by Industry Magazine, Oxford, England.
2020
Workshop tutor (sound art), MIXER//SHREDDER by MIXER//SHREDDER Collective, Oxford, England