Sarah Gittins is a visual artist working across a variety of media, with a particular focus on drawing and printmaking. Her work explores issues of social and ecological justice, with a current emphasis on issues of climate change, peak oil, land use and food sustainability. Sarah’s images create a space where the activities of everyday life (in western culture) encounter incidents of (global) environmental concern, bringing those issues which are often pushed to the edges of consciousness into the here and now of personal awareness.
Sarah is interested in the capacity of image-making to enable engagement, conversation and action for change. With this in mind recent years have seen more performative appoaches emerge within her work. Her work draws particular inspiration from the ecological philosopher Joanna Macy and the artists of the Taller de Grafica Popular, a collaborative Mexican printmaking studio established in 1937.
Sarah is currently designing a Mobile Print Unit, to be built at the Scottish Sculpture Workshop (February 2012), and working towards the implementation Dundee Urban Orchard (DUO), a city-wide environmental art project to be made in collaboration with Jonathan Baxter and Dundee residents over the next three years.
To contact Sarah please email: sarahjgittins@gmail.com
