Artist Talk “Multi-practice: a journey in art & design” by artist and designer Sarah Boris (United Kingdom) for VAA students and teachers 

Time: 18 November, 2 pm
Venue: VAA, C campus, 314 room (Malūnų st. 5 Vilnius) 

The talk presented Sarah Boris' practice from working in house in arts organisations as a designer to founding her own studio with a focus on her art practice which spans from sculpture, public art to bookmaking. Many images of the work from 2005 to now were showned.

Sarah Boris is an artist and designer who's practice encompasses book making, sculpture, drawing, printmaking, painting and design. She started out working as graphic designer for some of the biggest cultural institutions before setting up her own studio to focus on her art practice. Her work explores various topics and forms, from symbols to climate change and language. Her projects often emerge from lived experiences or are connected to specific contexts. After being a graphic designer and art director for several arts organisations and the publisher Phaidon, she set up her own practice in 2015 with the aim to focus on her art practice. Her published books include Rainbow (2022/3), Global Warming Anyone? (2019), Le Théâtre Graphique (2015/ 2016/2023) and After the Rain (2024) most of which are part of artists’ book collections. After the Rain is her latest book which is entirely screenprinted and echoes the sense of play present in some of her latest bodies of work. Her public art commission, The Heart Bench series (2021), demonstrates how she transforms a universal symbol into a functional sculpture. One of her most iconic artworks is the Fragile UK Flag (2015), where she created the Union Jack using fragile tape and blue paper. Her work has been exhibited at the Design Museum in London and is part of collections at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, the New York Centre for Book Arts, FRAC Normandie, MAK Vienna, artothèque Bel Ordinaire, the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, and the Jan Michalski Foundation in Switzerland.

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On 19-20 November, Sarah Boris lead a workshop for 2nd year students of the BA Graphic Art programme. The results of the workshop were presented in the hall of the Department of Graphic Arts on 20 November at 6 pm.

Sarah Boris visit to Vilnius Academy of Arts, Department of Graphic Arts is funded by the Erasmus+ mobility programme.

The presentation and workshop was curated by VDA Graphic Arts cat. Lecturer prof. Agnė Dautartaitė-Krutulė