Sara Mark is a process-led site-specific artist working with the innate properties of a particular palette of materials. Her work explores archetypal themes and narratives, and she is currently working on a series of ‘makings’ and prints that are investigations of the ‘random’ and the ‘inevitable’ - slowly unfolding manifestations.

She enjoys developing collaborative performances with musicians, dancers and poets as well as multi-disciplinary teams of design professionals.

Sara studied at Camberwell College of Art, London but originally trained and worked for over 15 years as a landscape architect; perhaps this is the origin of her interest in the making of ‘place’ and how the body interacts with space and object. Her work in the public realm is characterised by originality and responsiveness to site and context; she is a skilled place-maker.

“I am interested in the slippage that occurs between my intention, the actual piece of work and its ability to create ‘place’. The time that the work takes to evolve, the symbolism of the process and the mythological weight of materials: ice, ash, bronze and steel. The ephemeral process of ‘making’ becomes embodied in vessels, prints and canvases.

I like the idea that my work is the “making of bodies” or in the case of the new print series “the memorialization of the making of bodies”. The pieces shown in my latest show ‘Bodies Transformed’ are specifically “rustings”, “oxidisations” or “thawing”... material mementos of transformation.