TEXTILES

Handwoven tapestries and sculptures with recycled materials including plastic bags, clothing, hand dyed fibers, glass beads, bone and wire.

cOMMISSIONS

Work together with me to create a unique artwork for your home, business, or client using locally sourced recycled materials

exhibitions

2024 || OH MOTHER: FOR THE LOVE OF THE LAND

2021 || REMNANTS

2018 || FLUX: CYCLES OF CHANGE

Artist Statement:

In a social climate obsessed with modernity, and the recent politicization of climate change in the United States, the fiber works by Sarah Swift explore humanity's growing dissociation from the natural world, and our fundamental responsibility to combat the damaging impact we are having on our planet. Swift explores patterns and surfaces inspired by the earth through large scale fiber installations that are visually biomorphic and organic. She utilizes raw and recycled materials locally sourced from community donations, second hand stores, fair-trade co-operatives, or deadstock fibers from the fashion industry (which currently contributes to some of the highest volumes of waste on the planet.) She incorporates many ecological "problem" materials like plastic bags, drinking straws, metal can tabs, fruit netting, plastic wrap, acrylic based yarns, and hand dyed fabrics like old bed sheets or clothing that have been heavily used and cannot be donated.  

 Frequently, our priorities of human convenience and material success seem to outweigh a mindful relationship with our natural world. Swift hopes to inspire others to be more creative and resourceful with their everyday items and to challenge the perceptions and priorities of our consumer driven world. Small changes by many can have a lasting impact.