Artists
Sarah Staton
Born 1961, United Kingdom. Lives & Works in United Kingdom.
At Grizedale
On residency with husband Simon Bill and child Izzy, Sarah created a number of works playing with the constructs of craft activity. Sarah created the prototype of her giant Mackintosh tables, taking an icon of the Arts and Crafts movement and transforming its presence through scale and combination with some very ugly glassware. Other works included some incredibly large wooden buttons turned by Yew Too (a local wood-turning enterprise) and some giant Ugly Mugs. Ugliness is a recurrent theme for Sarah, the transformations she imposes on objects often switching them from beauty to ugly or vice versa, as if to debunk the notion of beauty and taste.
Project Contributions
Selected Shows
Solo Exhibitions
2009 A Clump of Plinths,
The Lowry, Salford
2008 How They Met, Bliech Rossi Gallery and Gabriela
Senn Gallery, Vienna, Austria
2008 Stacks Sticks Shucks Sucks, Yorkshire
Sculpture Park, Wakefield
2003 Green, or how we missed Modernism, Milton
Keynes Gallery
Group Exhibitions
2009 The Sculpture Show,
V22, London
2006 Off!, Outpost, Norwich
2003 Bad Behaviour, Hayward
Gallery, London
Links
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