Sarah Taylor Silverwood is an artist based in Birmingham. She grew up in The Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire.
Sarah’s drawing practice works across animation, textiles, ceramics, sculpture and print. Combining her interests in making, storytelling and working with other people, she produces solo projects for organisations and galleries, and works collaboratively with artists and socially-based initiatives. She creates artwork for exhibitions, the public realm and the home.
Sarah often revisits narratives that have become fixed by familiarity, and through drawing, reanimates them. She is continually researching making techniques and experimenting with materials, developing the practical application of her drawing in response to the ideas she is working with.
Current projects include new public art works with Hospital Rooms (2024), Eastside Projects (2025), Meadow Arts (2025) and Fermynwoods (2023). Recent solo projects include Love Bugs at Chapter, Cardiff (2021), Daphne at Aspex Portsmouth (2020) and The New Art Gallery Walsall (2019), and Crowd Show at NN Contemporary (2018). Sarah was artist in residence at The British Consulate in Chicago (2014) and The University of Birmingham (2013), and recipient of the 2019 Feeney Fellowship.
Her studio is at Grand Union and she is also a co-director of Modern Clay, a co-operative ceramics studio in Birmingham. You can buy work here in shop updates every few months, and it is also sold at Studio Outlet, Rabbits Road Press and East Bristol Contemporary.
Get in touch if you’d like to say hi! hello@sarahsilverwood.com
News:
Recipient of the Eaton Fund grant 2025
Eastside Projects - Digbeth Public Art Project 2023-5
What are the Art Jobs? Zine made with Sofia Niazi, buy a copy at Rabbits Road Press
Love Bugs is at Overlap Animation Festival, 19 May 2022
Love Bugs is at Flatpack Film Festival, 21 May 2022
Cardiff Animation Festival Q&A with Sam Moore, Sunday 10 April 4pm
Selected Press and Texts:
a-n - The Week’s Top Exhibitions
Text by Angela Kingston on New Art West Midlands
Text by Anneka French for Longbridge Public Art Project
