Sarah Lee

Sarah Lee works across ceramics and textiles and is influenced by folklore, music, history and literature,  blending these to make detailed annotations on life and the world around her. She has a collection of living sketch books and her painstakingly detailed embroidered works are testament to her method of working, as these pieces travel with her and are worked on constantly. Her use of found fabric, natural materials and dyes is central to the way she works and the artwork ages organically along the way, picking up traces, stains and creases- ghostly imprints of life and travel.

In 2022 Sarah took part in Narratives, the third in our pioneering Conversations Series, in which artists from Venture Arts work alongside other contemporary artists over several months, producing new work through an equal exchange of art and ideas. Sarah worked closely with Manchester Jewish Museum and her hand embroidered text and images were influenced by the stained glass windows and structures within the synagogue. Sarah’s work also reinterprets her grandfather’s experience and woodcarvings which he made as a way to process the persecution he had experienced. This collaboration resulted in an exhibition at The Lowry in January 2023.

Sarah has exhibited at The Lowry, Manchester Contemporary Art Fair, BALTIC and at British Textiles Biennial 2025.