- Artist: Sarah Pirrie
- Art Centre: Independent artist
- Region: Darwin
Artwork Story
Sarah Pirrie is a Darwin based artist with an innovative and cross-disciplinary art practice that embraces conceptual, site-responsive and often collaborative projects. Her work incorporates elements of drawing, sculpture, installation, events and public interventions. Sarah’s artwork has referenced a range of social and environmental issues and is often shaped by local activity and phenomena.
For ‘Terraforming’ her research focuses on transformative acts of waste and notions of environmental damage in order to explore concepts of envisioned natures and contemporary notions of environmental aesthetics.
Sarah has a long history with collaborative projects having worked with organisations such as ‘Aphids’ and ‘Clocked Out Production’ and more recently ‘with Stray’. In 2014 Sarah Pirrie participated in collaborative exchange and reciprocal residency with internationally renowned Indonesian Arts Collective ‘ruangrupa’ producing bus stop interventions as part of 2014 Darwin Festival project ‘Temporary Territory’.
Recent Exhibition highlights include:
‘135th Meridian East’, curated by Andre Lawrence, Australian Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide, South Australia, 2014
‘Botanica 1 & 2’, Group exhibitions curated by Cath Bowdler, Godinymayin Yijard Rivers Arts and Culture Centre, Katherine and Chan Contemporary Art Space, Darwin, 2014
‘Made to Last- the conservation of art’, curated by Sherryn Vardy, Charles Darwin University Art Collection & Art Gallery, Darwin, 2014
‘Art or Cunning?’ Curated by Alice Buscombe, Watch this Space, Alice Springs, 2013
‘Hidden/Pulse Disturbance’, by Stray (collaborative team of Sarah Pirrie and Natasha Anderson), Northern Centre for Contemporary Art (NCCA), Darwin, 2013
‘Runoff’, installation at 24HrArt Northern Territory Centre for Contemporary Art, Darwin 2012
Sarah Pirrie currently works as a Visual Arts Lecturer for School of Creative Arts and Humanities at Charles Darwin University.