Contact me:
salarby@gmail.com

Artist Statement

Sarah Larby’s background in painting and sculpture greatly informs her photography practice; where the studio environment acts as her blank canvas. 

She uses light and colour in a very painterly way to create dream-like scenes, drawing inspiration from different painting movements to craft atmospheric images – whether that be the moody tones of a Rothko or the light-heartedness of Monet’s impressionistic works. The final works have a sense of fluidity and timelessness, and all her images are lifted by a subtle thread of emotion that matches their colour palette.

Much-like her sculptural art practice, process is extremely important in her work – working in both analogue and digital processes, Larby often continues working on a piece long after the photograph has been taken. She loves to spend time in the darkroom and can often be found hand-printing, or when working digitally using CGI or physically intervening with the final print to create tactile, textured imagery. 
Bio

Sarah Larby (b.1998, Northumberland) is a visual artist and fine art photographer based in London, UK. She completed her BA in Fine Art at the University of Leeds in 2020, with one year studying classical sculpture at the Akademia Stuck Pieknych in Warsaw, Poland. Currently, she is pursuing an MA in Commercial Photography at London College of Communications, UAL.


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Please Take Pictures, Graduate Showcase, London College of Communications

Unesco Ocean Decade Exhibition Online, The Ocean Agency & Unesco 

Accidental Encounters, Copeland Gallery, Peckham 

Class of 2024, Work in Progress Show, London College of Communications, UK




Unsplash+ Emerging Talent Award

The Photofusion Prize

UNESCO AWARD for UN Decade of Ocean Science and Sustainable Development

    Developing your creative practice (DYCP) funding, Arts Council UK




    Open Studios, Hive Studios, London

    Overlay, Owl Store, Harrogate, UK

    Extract, Assembly House, Leeds, UK

    VIM, Hyde Park Art Club, Leeds, UK

    Default, Round Lemon, Online, UK

    Refresh, Frontier Art Gallery, Sheffield

    Made it, Online exhibition, Short Supply Manchester, UK

    After Hours,  Group show by Bowers Paris Gallery, London, UK

    Alpha.png, Online Exhibition, alpha-png.tumblr.com

    Fresh Start, System Art Gallery, Newcastle Upon-Tyne, UK

    Simmer, BA Fine Art Degree Show, Leeds, UK

    Ones to Watch, SunnyBank Mills, Farsley, UK

    Untitled, The Brunswick, Leeds, UK
    An Arm ‘nd A Leg, Freehold Projects, Leeds, UK

    End of Year Show, Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts, Poland

    Keep Gazing, Norman Rae Gallery, York, UK

    Room for (Dis)illusionment, Autonomy Collective, Hyde Park Book Club, Leeds, UK

    AXIS:‘Where these Spaces Reach and Bodies Align’, LeftBank Leeds, UK

    MORPHIC, LadyBeck Studios, Leeds, UK




    517 Degrees, Made it UK, Artist Feature [Book, Sculpture / Photography]

    Lost degree shows feature, The Delicate Rebellion, Issue 2, Uninfluenced [Sculpture]

    Displaced and Replaced, Simmer Leeds [Book, Sculpture]



    Private view blog, Interview with Damaris Athene  

    Round Lemon, Discussion on Minimalism

    Thinking Through Making by Sarah Larby, Pink Trolley Magazine

    RUYA Maps: Class of 2020
    , Sarah Larby

    @freshmeet, Curation No.3 by Kate Bryan

    Axisweb, 'New Art Highlights'

    Ones to Watch: Interview with Sarah Larby