Sarah crowEST

Sarah crowEST is a visual artist working across discipline boundaries of contemporary art, publishing and performance. Her recent collaborative projects involve sound artists and the production of diagrammatic scores, instruction works and word-events presented in the form of paintings and backdrops. CrowEST is currently working on an anthology of open-source scores which will evolve through collusions yet to come.

For decades crowEST has been entirely transfixed by Jamaican dub reggae, crafted during the1970s, and music with a persistent but slightly erratic loping heartbeat or backbeat. She has recently taken up listening afresh, with new innocence, to many kinds of sounds and music quite other to those previously loved. To find pathways through unfamiliar, auditory terrain crowEST sifts through the words, interpretations, and analysis of many voices. Drawings and diagrams emerge through the gathering together of text, glyphs, colours and shapes. “Musicians” are welcome to play or to make version-excursions with these word-notations. They might endeavor to follow or indeed to transgress the ‘instructions’ or collaborate directly with crowEST to further refine the process.

CrowEST’s 2019 work Dark Ruuumbling Earth was performed at the Melbourne Art Theatre with sound and movement scores in the form of backdrops and costumes. Luke Whitten contributed to the soundtrack and also created ambient noise for Version Excursion, an exhibition of crowEST’s paintings at CAVES, Melbourne. Two current, in-process, collaborations involve Lucreccia Quintanilla in Melbourne and film-maker/DJ Don Letts in London.

CrowEST was awarded a Shakespeare Grove Artist Studio residency 2017- 2020, a Gertrude Contemporary studio residency 2013-2016, and a PhD by University of Melbourne, Victorian College of the Arts, 2013. Recent exhibitions include: Soft Eyes, Dub Wise, Gallery 9, Sydney, 2019, Material Constructs, Ararat Gallery Textile Art Museum of Australia, 2018, Peregrinação São Paulo, Brazil, 2017, Endless Circulation, Biennial Tarrawarra Museum of Art, 2016.

http://www.sarahcrowest.com/
https://www.artistprofile.com.au/sarah-crowest/

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