Biography

Sarah Swift received her BFA in Painting from Pratt Institute of Art and Design in 2015. She has exhibited work in shows throughout Manhattan and Brooklyn and won Best of Show at the 2016 TriBeCa Conception Events Exhibition.

Swift worked as Gallery Director of Hera Gallery in Wakefield, Rhode Island, and currently remains an active freelancing artist member. She has curated shows in Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and NYC, and acted as Guest Juror for the Attleboro Museum of the Arts.  She has been featured in Artscope Magazine, So Rhode Island Magazine, RI-GO Local Live, Root TV, and more.

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She resides up and down the East Coast where the ocean and coastal forests deeply influence her work as a Freelance Artist. She is currently exhibiting her work across the country and has created large scale works for luxury resort hotels, restaurants, boutique inns, luxury homes, office spaces, and family homes.

Travel and exploration are also an underlying thread in her work. She has had the privilege to have solo-backpacked 29 countries throughout Europe, Africa, and Asia studying art history and architecture. She has driven 48 of the US states, and 18 National Parks and hopes to add more in 2025.  

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.