Sarah Bagshaw and Karen Wicks

Sarah is a surface pattern designer and artist and her work originates in mark making which is then manipulated through digital media. Sarah's work is recognisable through her use of bold colours and motifs. She has recently been using a range of handmade methods and discarded materials to create prints and her latest body of work includes a collaborative project with printmaker Karen Wicks, made in response to local abandoned buildings. Karen's practice is inspired by derelict buildings, capturing the presence and intrigue of the structures using intaglio print methods. The Japanese notion of 'wabi-sabi' is central to her work which celebrates beauty that is imperfect, impermanent and incomplete. The narrative of these everyday, forgotten places inspires her to record them using sustainable printmaking practices. Her work explores low-fi home print techniques and uses recycled packaging which become fragile and disintegrates over time to reflect the subject matter of 'ghost buildings' that inspire her. The artists' practices share some common ground in terms of materials but they have very different approaches that they are enjoying exploring and investigating the possibilities for future projects.