Sarah Pirrie

Biography

Sarah Pirrie works across a conceptual, site-responsive and often collaborative art practice that incorporates drawing, sculpture, installation, events and public interventions. Pirrie’s work has referenced a range of social and environmental issues and is often shaped by local activity and phenomena. Sarah Pirrie has exhibited extensively in solo and group gallery exhibitions in Australia since 1995 including solo exhibitions (2014) Terraforming at Nomad Gallery, (2012) Runoff at Northern Centre for Contemporary Art and (2011) Names on Trees (NOT Project) a Darwin Festival Events at the Jingili Watergardens, NT. Pirrie has contributed to a number of group exhibitions including (2015) SECRET WORLD: Carnivorous plants of the Howard sand sheets at Nomad Art, (2014) 135th Meridian East curated by André Lawrence at the Australian Experimental Art Foundation (AEAF), (2014) Botanica & Botanica 2 curated by Cath Bowdler touring Godinymayin Yijard Rivers Arts and Culture Centre and Chan Contemporary Art Space, (2014) Made to Last- the conservation of art curated by Sherryn Vardy at Charles Darwin University Art Gallery, (2013) Art or Cunning? curated by Alice Buscombe at Watch this Space, (2012) Art on Wheels, curated by Siying Zhou throughout Darwin City, (2011) Cuttings, curated by Rosemary Joy at Linden Contemporary Art Space. Sarah Pirrie’s collaborations commenced with the establishment of Aphids in 1994. Since then Pirrie has worked on many interarts projects including (2014) Temporary Territory, Darwin Festival Event collaborating with Simon Cooper and Jakarta based Arts Collective Ruangrupa, (2013) Hidden/Pulse Disturbance by Stray (collaborative team of Sarah Pirrie and Natasha Anderson) at Northern Centre for Contemporary Art (NCCA), (2009)The States; three day performance/installation with composer Erik Griswold and author Craig Foltz at the Judith Wright Centre, (2003) Revelations, multimedia performance/installation with Natasha Anderson, Robin Fox, Elizabeth Parsons and Erkki Veltheim at the Organs of the Goldfields Festival, (2002) Permanent Transit collaboration with composer Erik Griswold and author Craig Foltz, PATU Studio, University of Adelaide, South Australia, (2001)Other Planes, collaborative with Erik Griswold for the Sydney Spring Festival at The Studio, Sydney Opera House

Research Interest

Visual Arts.