Sarah Staton has been exhibiting internationally in the commercial and museum sectors since graduating from St Martin's School of Art in 1988. Since 2003 she has been based in Sheffield where she has a studio in the purpose built Yorkshire Art Space. As a painter and sculptor, Staton's art moves fluidly between two and three dimensions. Her inventive use of form and material embraces and disrupts familiar conventions of visual grammar. For example, her recent exhibition 'Shucks, Sucks, Sticks, Stacks' at Yorkshire Sculpture Park (2008) included stacked sculptures fabricated from wood that occupied a twilight…
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Sarah Staton has been exhibiting internationally in the commercial and museum sectors since graduating from St Martin's School of Art in 1988. Since 2003 she has been based in Sheffield where she has a studio in the purpose built Yorkshire Art Space.
As a painter and sculptor, Staton's art moves fluidly between two and three dimensions. Her inventive use of form and material embraces and disrupts familiar conventions of visual grammar. For example, her recent exhibition 'Shucks, Sucks, Sticks, Stacks' at Yorkshire Sculpture Park (2008) included stacked sculptures fabricated from wood that occupied a twilight zone between sculpture and furniture.
Staton's multifaceted artistic practice sees her drawing inspiration from graphic designers, furniture designers, architects, and cultural critics with whom she works frequently. As such, she has been involved in number of collaborative projects with architects, one of which saw her selected to commission a number of works for the newly refurbished Crucible Theatre in Sheffield. She is also working closely with architectural practice, Hawkins Brown, on designs for Hammerson's development in Sheffield and Future/Cities have short-listed her for a cladding commission in Cambridge.
Staton has had a number of exhibitions in the UK and abroad. Notable shows include 'Daddy POP' at Ann Faggionato, London (2004); 'kissingcousins' at the Henry Moore Institute, Leeds (2006);'In situ ex situ' at Mount Stuart, Scotland (2007); 'How They Met,' a collaborative exhibition created with artist Josephine Pryde in Vienna (2008); her inclusion in the Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition (2008) and her recent commission, 'A Clump of Plinths' for the Lowry Gallery, Salford (2009). Staton has also worked with the British Council on a number of exhibitions, notably on exhibition design and curation of 'Multiplication' which travelled through Europe, the Balkan region and South America in 2006.
In 2002 Staton was awarded the Henry Moore Sculpture Fellow at Sheffield Hallam before going on to receive the Arts Foundation Sculpture Prize in January 2008. She also sits on the board of S1 Artspace, Sheffield.
