Sara Heywood is a multidisciplinary artist based in east London, UK. Her process and project driven practice incorporates installation, photography, drawing and sculpture. Intrinsic to the work is a dialogue between people and place, the layers that make up the identity of a given site, and the point where natural and manmade environments and materials converge and impact one another. In doing so, she attempts to question and address our present-day relationship to the world around us, the legacy and imprints we leave behind, and the physical and emotional repercussions of a planet in climate crisis.

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Projects often start with a period of in-depth research and development. This includes exploring locality, heritage archives, social and personal narratives, ecologies and built environments before responding with the most appropriate media.​ Intrinsic to her work is a collaboration with found objects and materials and with other people, often resulting in collaborative or participatory experiences.

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BIO

Heywood has exhibited across UK and abroad, undertaken several international artist in residency programmes and commissions and was recently short-listed for The 7th John Ruskin Prize 2025, for her artwork Camera Obscura - Hertford Union Canal (2024).

 

She is also an experienced lead artist facilitator in visual arts education having worked on many permanent and temporary projects and commissions within school, community and gallery settings. These include: Barbican Centre, Bow Arts Trust, Camden Arts Centre, Chisenhale Gallery & Art Place (CAP), Cubitt Arts, South London Gallery and Whitechapel Gallery.​​