Sarah crowEST operates across contemporary art, design, craft and performance. Underpinned by a deep appreciation for sound and architectural forms, her recent output combines painting, working apparel, diagrammatic scores and the graphic qualities of text.
Selected recent exhibitions include Melbourne NOW at the Ian Potter Gallery 2023, Painting RE-UP: construction and deliquescence, LON Gallery, Melbourne 2023; ...to press beyond the given... Gallery 9, Sydney 2022; PACE, LON Gallery, Melbourne 2021; Sound Seen, Shepparton Art Museum 2020; 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.
crowEST has been awarded an Australia Council Project Grant (2018), Civic Award Melbourne Sculpture Prize (2017), Shakespeare Grove Artist Studio Residency (2017–21), an Australia Council Development Grant (2016), a Gertrude Contemporary Studio residency (2013–16), and has completed a PhD for her sculpture-based research project Unaccountable Mass: bothersome matter and the humorous life of forms at the Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne (2013). Her work is held in various collections, including those of the NGV, the Art Gallery of South Australia and the NT Museum of Arts and Sciences.