Sarah Blood, artist and currently an Associate Professor of Sculpture at Alfred University, New York USA. Born in the UK, Sarah Blood holds a BA (Hons) in 3D Design and an MA in Glass from the University of Sunderland. She has been a practicing artist since 1999, exhibiting her work throughout the UK, Europe, China, Hong Kong, the United Arab Emirates, and the USA.

“My practice is concerned with light and phenomenology. When I talk about light, I’m also talking about its absence. Light gives us colour, warmth, and life, but we have no perception of form, texture, and depth without the shadows. I play with the tension between material, form or object, and space. Light, often neon, is enriched by a counterpoint with conceptual, physical, and visual weight. I used to think that light was everything, but light in isolation is nothing; we must also know the dark if we hope to understand our world.

I use beauty to draw the viewer into the work, often employing metaphor or humour as an entry point. The resulting works flow between lean and opulent, a distillation of ideas to their essence. At first look, pieces can appear whimsical, a celebration of light and form. Social and political themes that underpin the works are revealed with time and deeper exploration.

My current research explores themes of invisibility, structures of power and inequitable systems. The resulting works explore light, sound and movement using contemporary and obsolete technologies with traditional and non-traditional art-making materials to create object-based sculpture, performative interventions, video and immersive experiences.“

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