Sarah Blissett

Sarah Blissett is a UK-based artist, writer and dramaturg working between visual art and performance. Her interdisciplinary practice considers embodied ways to remember and reimagine human-nonhuman relationships at a time of climate crisis. Her work includes performance, installation, spoken word, sound, dance, workshops, writing and cooking as different ways to think through and digest corporeal relationships between bodies and environments.

She is lecturer in performance at the University of Plymouth where her current research is concerned with ways of working at the thresholds between land and water through site-responsive performance. She is the guest editor of the CSPAQ issue on ‘Intertidal Encounters’ for the Centre for Sustainable Practice in the Arts.

Sarah regularly collaborates with other artists. She is the founder and co-director of SOAK Live Art CIC (Support Our Artist Kin), a multidisciplinary platform for experimental performance by South West artists. With SOAK, she curates and runs a regular series of live art events.

Recent projects include: Alluvial Matters, at gallery 333, Exeter Phoenix (2024), Sea Shadow at Entre Vagos (2024), River Rememberings at Modern Art Oxford (2022), Marking Tidetime at Totally Thames Festival (2022), How Nature Builds at Modern Art Oxford (2019-22), Kelp Curing at Lofoten International Art Festival (LIAF) (2019).

Past works have been commissioned and shown nationally and internationally including at Exeter Phoenix, Modern Art Oxford, Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade de Lisboa Gallery, Mustarinda, Lofoten International Arts Festival, Arnolfini, Philosophy Unbound, Mere Literary festival, Whitstable Biennale, Battersea Arts Centre, Something Other, Cultivamos Cultura, Little Angel Theatre, LADA, The Pigeon Wing and Platform 1 Gallery among others.