Remnants

by Sarah Swift

March 6th - April 3rd

Artist Statement:

This body of work explores the ever changing cycles within organic phenomena, and our growing disassociation to the earth, despite our deep primordial connection with the environment around us. Remnants looks specifically at "what gets left behind" from our human existence in a multitude of ways, both physical and emotional. I have considered the power of memory and psychological remnants within human interaction, trauma, and change. I look at our cultural modernization and our growing separation from the harsh existence within the natural world. Our obsession with "easier, faster, lighter, smarter" and the priority of human convenience, easily seem to outweigh a mindful relationship with the natural world. We create a path of destruction in our wake, blinders on, expecting the whole world for ourselves.

Artist Biography:

Sarah Swift was born and raised in Exeter, Rhode Island, and moved to Brooklyn, NY to attend the Pratt Institute of Art and Design for Painting and Printmaking. Graduating in 2015 with her BFA, she exhibited work in shows throughout Manhattan and Brooklyn, and won the Best of Show award at the 2016 Conception Events-TriBeCa Arts Exhibition. Swift has curated several shows in Rhode Island and NYC, and acted as Guest Juror for the Attleboro Museum of the Arts Members Exhibition in 2017. She has been featured in Artscope Magazine, So Rhode Island Magazine, RI-GO Local Live, Root TV, and in several Local papers. She now resides in Exeter, Rhode Island, with her studio in the tower at the Shady Lea Mill artist studios. From 2017 - 2021 she worked as Gallery Director of Hera Gallery in Wakefield RI, and remains an Artist member.