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RISE Gallery is a window into the art and research outputs of Sarah Bissett Scott - artist, academic and regeneration consultant.
B&W photographs - places and people from the faded history of North Kensington - are from housing projects at the Architectural Association (1978). These records form a benchmark into 'spatial justice' as researched across South and East England and London, for funding regeneration projects in communities. These original photographic records of London's W11 neighbourhood contrast with later 21st Century images, charcoal portraits and abstractions.
Speaking in Abstractions
Sarah's art gathers different mediums for further understandings of communities and people and places: 'Half Seen, Half Understood' is a project that she is working on in 2024. Earlier, some of her charcoal portraits and abstractions appeared at 'It's Only Black and White' for OPEN STUDIOS 2022, 'Inside Out' at BIG MAKERS FAIR (South Mills Bishop Stortford 2023), explored quick-shot pictures of buildings, people and places extracted into abstract paintings, for the BIG ART FAIR Hitchin, later expanding these themes into 'Reflections on Small Boats' at the HVAF OPEN STUDIOS Southern Malting Ware 2023.
Future Scape: While 2023 was puzzling, for 2024 analysing the 'why' of present problems is a search for future solutions. Consider 'future ruins' - what will last from today's regeneration schemes? Urban designers bring their focus down into balancing the complex demands of progress, spatial equity, accessibility and why some people are excluded.
Reflections on Small Boats starts with the 'Garden of Memory' where a thousand lives were lost as it sank travelling between Libya to Italy. Retrieved and controversially used as an allegorical sculpture at the Venice Biennale 2019, it is a place to reflect on the travails of small boats - a harsh and harrowing reflection on on the 'how' of rising to resolve political challenges for the human right to 'spatial justice'.