Inspire. Support. Create.
Sarah Warsop
Performance in Craft Award
Cockpit Arts
2016
In 2016, jeweller and choreographer, Sarah Warsop won the Performance of Craft Award at Cockpit Arts, a craft business incubator in London. The Award has been created to reveal the dynamic process of their community of artist-makers and communicate stories about the concepts and ideas that underpin their craft.
As a jeweller and choreographer, Sarah creates wearable moments in time, capturing the complexity and characteristics of time and holding movement in precious metals.
For over 25 years with Rambert Dance Company and Siobhan Davies Dance before completing an MA at Central St Martins in Jewellery. She has collaborated with a number of artists, including Idris Khan and the artists and bookbinder Tracey Rowledge. Together, in 2011, they created the piece ‘What Isn’t Here Hasn’t Happened’, a series of large graphite drawings. In this project they explored how physicality and physical presence can be experienced through a drawing made by the human figure, and how the mark and the body’s physical and emotional state are inseparable.The process involved developing a piece of choreography that was performed live before then deciding to use the choreography as a tool to create the drawings.
In 2012/13 Sarah was jeweller in residence at The British Library researching graphic music scores, making a series of large charcoal drawings and jewellery called 'Body 30'57"'
With the Award's financial support she collaborated with filmmaker Deborah May to create Liminal, a film that captures Sarah’s interest in drawing and music to create pieces of choreography; in this case focusing on the making body – hands, arms, upper body, and drawing attention to transitional, transformational space where the processes to make one kind of work can be used to make a different kind of work. This is the first time that Sarah has collaborated with a filmmaker to realise her ideas.
In its literal sense, ‘liminal’ refers to a transitional or initial stage of a process, often occupying both sides of a boundary or threshold. This is perfectly articulated in Sarah’s statement about this current exploratory period of her work:
“Arresting time through a work of dance, jewellery or drawing reveals the complexities and characteristics of the moving body. Each piece is a moment for reflection, for looking and seeing, and a springboard for future exploration. By collaborating, in this case with a film maker, each person can bring his or her particular knowledge and experience to the project. Information and ideas can be pooled creating an environment where unfamiliar questions can be asked, new processes tried and unexpected outcomes reached”
“This was the first time I’ve gone from drawing to movement – retrograde for me. Previously, I have always begun with movement and lead to object. As a maker I rarely land in a finished place with a finished product. Something in one medium is the beginning or leads to another.”
Sarah won the Award in 2016 following a call for applications from makers based at Cockpit Arts’ two incubator centres in London. The Award comprised of funding to realise a proposed performance piece, as well as mentoring tailored to support the winner in developing a sustainable practice, in this case provided by Julia Lancaster of ACME Studios alongside the exceptional in-house coaches at Cockpit Arts. This award followed the launch of Cockpit's first Artist-Maker Residency, launched that year, and builds on their commitment to nurturing their members' artistic development alongside helping them to develop a sustainable business model.
www.sarahwarsop.com/
Inspire. Support. Create.
Sarah Warsop
Performance in Craft Award
Cockpit Arts
2016
In 2016, jeweller and choreographer, Sarah Warsop won the Performance of Craft Award at Cockpit Arts, a craft business incubator in London. The Award has been created to reveal the dynamic process of their community of artist-makers and communicate stories about the concepts and ideas that underpin their craft.
As a jeweller and choreographer, Sarah creates wearable moments in time, capturing the complexity and characteristics of time and holding movement in precious metals.
For over 25 years with Rambert Dance Company and Siobhan Davies Dance before completing an MA at Central St Martins in Jewellery. She has collaborated with a number of artists, including Idris Khan and the artists and bookbinder Tracey Rowledge. Together, in 2011, they created the piece ‘What Isn’t Here Hasn’t Happened’, a series of large graphite drawings. In this project they explored how physicality and physical presence can be experienced through a drawing made by the human figure, and how the mark and the body’s physical and emotional state are inseparable.The process involved developing a piece of choreography that was performed live before then deciding to use the choreography as a tool to create the drawings.
In 2012/13 Sarah was jeweller in residence at The British Library researching graphic music scores, making a series of large charcoal drawings and jewellery called 'Body 30'57"'
With the Award's financial support she collaborated with filmmaker Deborah May to create Liminal, a film that captures Sarah’s interest in drawing and music to create pieces of choreography; in this case focusing on the making body – hands, arms, upper body, and drawing attention to transitional, transformational space where the processes to make one kind of work can be used to make a different kind of work. This is the first time that Sarah has collaborated with a filmmaker to realise her ideas.
In its literal sense, ‘liminal’ refers to a transitional or initial stage of a process, often occupying both sides of a boundary or threshold. This is perfectly articulated in Sarah’s statement about this current exploratory period of her work:
“Arresting time through a work of dance, jewellery or drawing reveals the complexities and characteristics of the moving body. Each piece is a moment for reflection, for looking and seeing, and a springboard for future exploration. By collaborating, in this case with a film maker, each person can bring his or her particular knowledge and experience to the project. Information and ideas can be pooled creating an environment where unfamiliar questions can be asked, new processes tried and unexpected outcomes reached”
“This was the first time I’ve gone from drawing to movement – retrograde for me. Previously, I have always begun with movement and lead to object. As a maker I rarely land in a finished place with a finished product. Something in one medium is the beginning or leads to another.”
Sarah won the Award in 2016 following a call for applications from makers based at Cockpit Arts’ two incubator centres in London. The Award comprised of funding to realise a proposed performance piece, as well as mentoring tailored to support the winner in developing a sustainable practice, in this case provided by Julia Lancaster of ACME Studios alongside the exceptional in-house coaches at Cockpit Arts. This award followed the launch of Cockpit's first Artist-Maker Residency, launched that year, and builds on their commitment to nurturing their members' artistic development alongside helping them to develop a sustainable business model.
www.sarahwarsop.com/