Sarah Browne

Sarah Browne is an artist based in Cork concerned with spoken and unspoken, bodily experiences of knowledge, labour and justice. Her practice involves sculpture, film, performance and public projects, and frequent interdisciplinary collaboration. She often works with people of formal and informal expertise (children, lawyers, poets) to establish a new community of knowledge or concern through art.

Browne’s solo projects include Echo’s Bones (2022: a collaborative filmmaking project with autistic young people, responding to works by Samuel Beckett, commissioned by Fingal County Council); and Public feeling (2019: public art commission in South Dublin leisure centres). Her solo exhibitions include Tógaimid ár dteanga le carraigeacha [we build our language with rocks], Kunstverein Aughrim, Wicklow;  Buttercup, SIRIUS, Cobh (both 2024), and Report to an Academy, Marabouparken, Stockholm (2017). In 2020 she curated TULCA Festival of Visual Arts, Galway, with a project titled The Law is a White Dog.

Significant group exhibitions Browne has participated in include Bergen Assembly: Actually, the Dead are Not Dead (2019) and the Liverpool Biennial, with Jesse Jones (2016). In 2009 she co-represented Ireland at the Venice Biennale with Gareth Kennedy and their collaborative practice, Kennedy Browne.