Sarah McCartney
Cornwall’s Invaders under Royal Scrutiny…
Wireweed, one of the non-natives on display. Photo by RYA Emily Whiting Some of the specimens I did and some of my illustrations ended up...
Sarah McCartney Artist
Cornish artist living and working in Falmouth
Currently studying for the Authorial Illustration MA at Falmouth University but due to the pandemic taking intermission, returning in January 2022. A Cornish artist living and working in Falmouth Sarah studied in London for many years finishing with a post graduate diploma in sculpture at the Royal Academy of Arts in 1989. Since returning to Cornwall in 1991 Cornwall and the sea have shaped and influence her life and work.
'My work is... process led, rooted in recording, collecting and making observational drawings of found natural objects, assembling my discoveries, reflecting time spent and distilling the essence of being present so my seeing and noticing can be re-seen and rediscovered by another… my way of living, of being awake, remembering that I am not separate, of noticing'
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Sarah McCartney
resins finished and off to France…
I’ve finished the invasive marine species specimens for ERCCIS. The last piece, wire weed Sargassum muticum, was poured and left to cure...
Sarah McCartney
the orange crab disaster and five more specimens arrive …
Five new specimens arrived this week. But first an update on the Asian shore crab. It went a bit wrong after my last post. Now it’s all...
Sarah McCartney
new specimens, a frame for the wakame and a quiet walk to prisk
My room smells of pickling alcohol. I received two more specimens for the job I am doing for ERCCIS today and have been preparing them to...
Sarah McCartney
embedding marine non-native species …
Tonight instead of kayaking in the rain (which I was looking forward to) I have been pressing seaweeds. But I can paddle any time and...