Branches at Dusk by Sarah Boulton

About

Sarah Boulton is interested in paying attention to things that are fleeting and unseen, and to finding poetic ways to engage in this sensibility. The works she makes are often ephemeral or changeable in nature and they exist in the world in ways and materials that echo this liveness.

The works in the show bring together on-going ideas around invisibility, presence, imagination and play. They are informed by Sarah’s practice as a parent and as a forest school leader, where she works with young children in the woods. Some of the works here are off-shoots or day-dreams of previous versions, as she moves through life with her work, instinctively following its lead. ‘Branches at Dusk’ takes its title from one of the works in the show, where Sarah walks at dusk into the woods near her home after storms and high winds and collects fallen branches.

As a part of the exhibition, Sarah will include some spoken-word artworks that will be told to visitors, live in the gallery space throughout April. We are inviting participants who are interested in being part of Sarah’s work and willing to speak some of these text pieces live in the gallery space. The works are short and simple to remember. Please email laura@studiokind.org.uk for more details. 

Sarah Bouton is an artist and poet living in Mid Wales. Works and readings have been presented with Bristol Beacon; Case da Dona Laura, Lisbon; Studio CYBI in North Wales; La Biennale de Momon, an immaterial biennale in France; Burning House Books, Glasgow; Heartbreak Hotel Café, North Devon, and Lydgalleriet’s ‘Parabol’ sound project, Bergen. She was a studio bursary recipient with Outer Spaces in Glasgow in 2022 and her first collection of texts, ‘Continuum: Collected Happenings and Writings’ was published by Care of Time in 2019 in New York.