Biography

My practice has taken a few twists and turns this last year. The main body of previous work has been process led experimental sculpture which has allowed the freedom to intuitively play and creatively respond with objects and materials. These works were usually linked to historic artists and movements and in particular Minimalism and post-Minimal practices. Following this I investigated how performance and the process of making challenged the idea of art having to have a ‘real’ finished product and how the act of making was in itself enough. These particular works responded to the idea of repetition , doing, and redoing and were documented as video performances.

Recent work has been hand drawn stop motion animation and as I see it as a direct extension of my sculptural practice and I am using it to promote ideas that I’m unable to do in conventional sculpture. By using simple, short, black & white animation which stem from drawings made in the studio, I can play with movement, form and perception. By using this method to create work, the location and mode of production of the traditional art object is transferred into the realms of digital art which opens up the unlimited possibility of things (or the impossibility of things). This new investigation has thrown up lots of lines of enquiry such as how we respond to objects in virtual spaces and how, as art animations, these works are curated and accessed by the viewer.

Current work are sculptural drawings and as I've just moved into a studio at S1 in Sheffield I'm looking forward to returning to making 'real' objects and sculpture.

I am also working on a ongoing series of photographs which get published on twitter @sarabrannan. These photographs are of everyday things which I come across in my daily travels which I'm attracted to which make me stop and think; it could be an object out of context or a unintentional sculpture. These readymades remind me of something that I've already experienced as an art object, or could, under a context, sit quite comfortably as an art object in a gallery.

This project interests me because it proposes an alignment between sculpture and photography, and an absurd Surrealist intervention into daily life.