Sarah Rhys is an inter-disciplinary artist living in rural Carmarthenshire, Wales whilst maintaining her connection to Bristol. Initially, Sarah trained at City of Guilds of London Art School and Swansea School of Art, later she received her BAQTS in Design Technology education, MFA at Bath Spa University in 2004 and Postgraduate diploma in Multi-disciplinary Printmaking from University of the West of England in 2013.
Living in a village on the coast at the mouth of an estuary she inevitably became drawn
to the extraordinary mercurial nature of the landscapes, engaging with local ecologies
as well as narratives from the area. Sarah is currently working with a local coracle man
on making a traditional Tywi (Towy) coracle. Her interest is in the process, the
language and the choreography of human interaction with ideas and material around
design anthropology and of 'form coming into being'. She is collecting the narratives and social history that surround this small enigmatic vessel still currently in use in rural Carmarthenshire.
Recent Projects
Holobiont 2021 with Caroline Vizthum involved public events; talks, readings and
walks. This led to Sarah being invited to show Cryptic Landscape at The National
Botanic Garden of Wales 2021-2. For this, she made small assemblages in response to
local ecologies.
Ffyngau 2022-3 with Anne-Mie Melis was a project that developed from a shared
interest in fungi after attending a cultivation course in the Brecon Beacons.
Geomoprph 2023-4 is a series of ongoing residencies with Colin Higginson and Emily
Joy with shared interests in landscape, archaeology, ritual and mapping.
Sarah contributed a chapter to the bilingual publication HON: Artistiad Benywaidd yng
Nghymru/ Women Artists in Wales published by the H'mm Foundation in 2022.
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