Sarah Savage, BA Fine Art student at Camberwell College of Arts, is a Northern Ireland born artist who paints landscapes that are introspections of her experience growing up in a divided country. Savage studied Foundation level at Belfast Met and has previously attained the Finalist position for the Young Artist of the Year Award in Northern Ireland. Savage is currently contributing work to the debut edition of NURTURE Magazine, a newly founded arts publication. Savage has also exhibited at Galleries in Belfast and is currently working to establishing a large studio base to accommodate the production of large scale paintings.
For the 2021 Big Walls & Windows Project at Camberwell College of Arts, Savage will create a mural that explores universal symbols that appear on roads on which we travel around the world, that appear during our travels to and from home and work. Savage explores how these simplistic shapes can become notions of solitude, nostalgia and belonging to the wider sphere while also representing areas of safety and danger. As a stationary mural, the artwork will contribute to an existing sense of travel, where the motifs will be symbolic to the notions of restrictions, freedoms and the compulsion of movements between people and vehicles.