art practice
My practice is exploring the intersections of science-magic-art. As a former biologist, and now a Priestess of Cuda and with an MA in Performance: Society, I make material, embodied and conceptual forays into meaning and culture for kinder, more inclusive relationships through systems of living and non-living beings.
recent projects
BODY-IN-BODY of water
Performance artwork and film as a collaboration with the River Frome in Stroud, exploring the notion of “riverkin”.
MATTERING LIFE RESIDENCY
A collaboration between UCL, the Tokyo Institute of Technology, and Central Saint Martins UAL. I worked with fellow student resident Freya Shi to explore magic and ritual in the science lab.
IMPERFECT TAROT
MA Thesis in the form of an imperfect and ecofeminist tarot deck. Soon launching on Kickstarter as a limited edition collectable.
SURGE III – GUT FEELINGS
A collaboration with Ryman Hashem, Senior Research Fellow at UCL medical engineering center WEISS. We explored the experience of participants who had Hyperemesis (extreme sickness) in pregnancy. Ryman’s work is in making soft robot models of the stomach. Out of the project he made a new silicone model of the uterus.
The Baby makers: Making History
With Sharon Bennett as The Women’s Art Activation System, this National Lottery Heritage funded project brought missing histories to Stroud’s Museum in the Park.
Alma Mater
A performance about the “Alma Mater”, or boarding school. And an essay for publication in a new book for 2025. Latest updates via Instagram @sarahdixonstudio
THE FIRST COMMUNITY IS EARTH
Created as part of MA Performance: Society at Central Saint Martins/UAL. A response to the problems of the way “community” is used to mask conflict, exclusion, hierarchies and violence. If we start in the Earth we are at the beginning of awareness. A coming into relationship with death and life cycles.
RESidency: Tetbury woodyard
Using found materials such as brick dust and charcoal, mixed with linseed oil, I am making rituals and artworks on the timber structures including a composting loo and a roundhouse, at the Wholewoods woodyard near Tetbury. This is an ongoing residency and you can follow via my IG.
The ritual burning of unwanted art
Addressing the problem of clearing out items that are both valued AND not wanted, this is a process to be performed in a group or alone that allows us to be free of excess artworks without being hampered by guilt, anxiety or dread.
100 goddesses
Solo show in 2022 – a collection of 100 egg tempera paintings of Goddesses from around the earth-world and my own inner world. Commissions, originals and prints available.
the milky way/the waas
The Milky Way is a discovery of breastfeeding in the National Gallery London. Created with The Women’s Art Activation System as part of a commission into Social Art for EDI (SAFEDI).
Meltdown
Meltdown is a ritual melting, cutting and filing of family silver, to create a new set of items as an heirloom for my descendants.
PHONE BOX ART: WHAT DO YOU DREAM OF? 2020
A neighbourly art show in a phone box, socially distanced for lockdown. Commissioned by Create Gloucestershire with Strike A Light and Chelthenham Art Festivals.
MOTHER BUNTING
Mother Bunting is a participatory artwork about people’s experiences of being and having a mother. The Bunting opens up a space for conversations that may often be hidden away and kept private. When women become mothers, and birthing people become parents, esecially for the first time, they face a huge mass of social, physical and emotional challenges. The collective Bunting is a space in which these stories can be expressed and heard by the wider community.
20 games for gloucester library
As artist in residence at Gloucester Library I spent time with the staff and the building. Out of this came the idea to share 20 Games, drawing on the atmosphere of anxiety and the desire to relax amoung staff, some of whom worked on elaborate jigsaw puzzles in the tea room to becalm themselves.
Culture & design
the periodic table of brilliant women & girls
A collaboration with my husband Rob, in which we ran a successful Kickstarter campaign to create this colourful poster and accompanying booklet. Featuring 101 world-changing figures you may not have heard of, we celebrate and lift up female contributions to society globally.
E-Motions
These animated and real-life printed artworks express a range of feminist & emotional content, mostly responses to online social activity.
Available as NFTs on OpenSea. Also available as prints, please enquire for details.
The GODDESS CALENDAR
The Seasonal Goddesses take us through a year of 6-week cycles, aligend with the solar and lunar habits that shape the Earth. 2025 Limited Edition is now available via the online store – follow @arachnezgoddesses on IG for announcements
Get in touch
- sarah@sarahdixon.studio
- Top Floor, Piccadilly Mill West, off Lower Street, Stroud GL5 2HT
Mon – Thu 10:00-17:00; Fri 10:00-13:00