Sarah Long

Sarah Long is an artist based in Cork City. Her practice focuses on suppressed female archetypes, the politics of representation, nationhood and myth through the lens of feminism. She creates autofiction which she translates across painting, installation, performance and writing. She identifies reverberations in Irish culture and combines these references with personal stories and motifs. She views this rearranging and reinterpreting of histories and visualities as an act of feminist fictioning, highlighting moments and ideas that haunt, shape and subjugate our collective consciousness. Sarah uses the aesthetics of girlhood as a mode of criticality.

Her recent solo shows include I will not flower, South Tipperary Arts Centre, Clonmel (2025)and The Licks Within The Lip, St. Luke’s Crypt, Cork City (2023). Her recent group shows include Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre (2026); Rua Red, Dublin (2025); STARLING, Limerick (2025) and Pallas Projects / Studios, Dublin (2024-25).

Her recent commissions include the radio play Tread Softly Because You Tread On My Dreams (2025), Fermynwoods Contemporary Art, UK.

She holds an MLitt in Art Writing from Glasgow School of Art and a BA (Hons) in Fine Art from Crawford College of Art & Design.

Sarah’s debut novella W/w, featuring her autofictional character Mary, was published by Bloomers in 2024.