Sarah Desmarais

2019 QEST Garfield Weston Foundation Scholarship - Printmaking
East Sussex

Sarah is an independent textile and paper-based printmaker. She works with a variety of media, including oil paint, collage and gouache.

Sarah has carried out a variety of practice-based research projects, including AHRC-funded doctoral research (2012 – 2015) into the relationship between creative making and mental health.

A QEST Scholarship will see Sarah complete a four-week structured programme of study at the Scuola Internazionale di Grafica Venezia, an established print studio in Venice, specialising in cutting-edge and sustainable printmaking.

Sarah will also take part in various group workshops and one-to-one training to learn a range of different printmaking skills (with a focus on woodcut). This training will allow her to produce larger and more technically ambitious work, and to introduce more sustainable ways of working into her practice.

I’m fascinated by the tension between geometric forms and expressive, organic qualities of brush stroke and freehand drawing that potentially disrupt their orderly disposition.

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