Pitch 10
Sarah McAlister
Mixed media
Sarah approaches her making in a meaningful way that adopts a number of intuitive methods which are highly considered and committed to the use of sustainable materials that are often embedded with narrative.
Her ethos as a textile artist is to recycle, re-use and re-purpose existing resources. Her works are made entirely from found objects including cloth that take on different forms depending on the materials’ properties. The transformative process of Sarah’s making, allows industrial subjects to contradict the softness associated with textiles.
‘Place’ is important to Sarah’s work which is often created in response to an event or a visit to a particular location. Her works aim to transform the invisible emotions experienced in that place into tangible artworks.
In her practice, she has the freedom to explore how textiles resonate with a particular place or the time they were made and used.
Her focus is to re-imagine new potential uses for discarded materials and communicate this to a wider audience.
“The point is the beginning of everything and also the end. If you
can really understand it you will feel indeed the great life of the
universe and the value of your existence.” - Li Yuan-chia 1929-1994
