Sarah Cole is an artist who works across media in different social situations and contexts.
Her work involves orchestrating conversations and actions as live research into lived experience. She explores the territories of pedagogy, performance and place with a particular interest in models of care. Outcomes include performance, events, video installation, lectures and writing.
Since 2017, Sarah has worked collaboratively with Annis Joslin, gaining funding from Arts Council England to develop work that reflects people's experiences of trauma. They use analogue and digital processes, including 360 video, in playful workshop environments. Collaborations include working with Brighton Women's Centre and Joining Hands, Joining Hearts, a domestic abuse charity in Kent.
Sarah Cole is Reader and Pathway Leader XD Fine Art at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London.
For the past ten years Sarah has been Principle Investigator for Jaywick Open, a research project funded by Essex County Council Public Health.
Work includes:
SHIFT HAPPENS, Cole & Joslin with Brighton Women's Centre - exhibition at Phoenix Art Space, Brighton
STATIC, an award-winning 360 video to be watched on a mobile phone or VR headset, a Cole & Joslin project
MESSY BUSINESS, made with survivors of domestic violence and sexual abuse, People United / Joining Hands Joining Hearts, Cole & Joslin
SMOTHER, developed with very young parents, a sited performance in King's Cross, commissioned by Artangel, with Coram
TRIBE, an exhibition evolved from working with a young women's group and presented at Peckham Platform
IN-KIND, a one-to-one performance in an old military ambulance, made with long-term 'hidden' carers, commissioned by Air / Islington Council
NEST, three years in a primary school as Lead Artist, for Creative Partnerships