BIO
Sarah Boulter is based in Salford, UK & works with video, print, performance & installation. Her practise explores fabricating collective memory via ceremony, routine, the manipulative weight of evidence & the aspirational appeal of the ultra feminine.
Boulter’s practice focuses on strengthening the ties of the UK /European family by building long lasting relationships across Europe, making work with local participation: processions with elderly French ladies, winning village beauty shows, writing love letters, performing essential tourism in Venice & borrowing German sisters.
Boulter also works collaboratively and is co-founder of Nightshift International with Elliott Flanagan, creating reassuringly mundane TV via uncomfortable on-screen relationships exploring false intimacy and disappointment, glossed with a soapy sheen.
She is currently thinking about Pandemic Romance.
Choice Reviews:
"The films may make you laugh but you will also wonder why your life feels so sad and empty!" Big Fan 2020
"Porn without the porn". Italian Giornalista at Venice Biennale 2019
EXHIBITIONS
The Whitaker Gallery, Rossendale: Film Programme 2023
Stage part of Pebble/Shoe at Kingsgate Project Space London for LLE 2023
The Julie Channel video commission for Venture Arts Narratives Residency at Lowry Gallery Salford 2023
Sponge Bath music vid commission for No Such Thing Records for Modest Show at SOUP Manchester 2022
Soft Things for A Modest Show for British Art Show at SeeSaw Space Manchester 2022
NewBridge Projects Slack’s Radio Residency, Pandemica Romantica Melodrama for Radio, Newcastle 2022
FILMSTOCK, Stock Gallery, Manchester 2021
GrrlHaus Cinema, for GRRL Telephone, @Loophole Berlin, @Ilali Studio Berlin, Germany 2021
Galerie Hinten, Twinners, Chemnitz, Germany 2019
CAMP, Aulus Les Bains, France, Ca Pique Doucement 2019
SET, London & Abingdon Studios, Blackpool, Proforma Tour,2019
Manchester Contemporary Art Fair Proforma Stand 2019
g39, Spring Sprung, Cardiff 2019
Proforma Pavilion & Pas-E Venice, Italy, Continental Dossier: Venice Biennale Residency 2019
Manchester Contemporary Art Fair NIGHTSHIFT INTERNATIONAL x PROFORMA 2018
Dancehouse, Manchester for Proforma Festival 2018
PS Mirabel, Manchester Twice as Nice 2018
FÉMININFÉMININ curated by Legroom for Sounds from the Other City Festival, Salford 2018
RAW Labs & Bow Arts London A Month at the Venice Biennale 2018
Castlefield Gallery New Art Spaces, Manchester Love is a 3 Way Game 2018
International 3, Salford Into the Labyrinth 2017
Soup Kitchen Public Relations 2 2017
PAPER Gallery, Manchester Public Relations 1 2017
International 3, Salford How Do We Look 2017
PAPER Gallery, Manchester Hepworth Print Fair 2017
Know Your Place Nightshift International pop up, Manchester 2017
Artwork Atelier, Salford Constellations 2017
Women’s Equality Party Conference, Manchester, 2016
Hot Bed Press 20:20 International Print Exchange 2016
Create Salford, Allerton Studios, 2016
PAPER Gallery,Hepworth Print Fair, Hepworth Gallery 2016
Grosvenor Gallery, Manchester Territorial Anxiety Feb 2016
HOME, Manchester featured artist for Sketch-o-matic 2015
The Old Fire Station, Salford Hidden Identities 2015
RESIDENCIES & AWARDS
Galerie Hinten Residency, Chemnitz, Germany 2019
CAMP Aulus Les Bains, France, Residency Workshop with Laure Prouvost 2019
Creative Europe i-Portunus Mobility Grant 2019
Proforma Pavilion Residency Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy 2019
Proforma Annual Professional Development Fellowship 2018-19
Venice Biennale British Council Fellowship 2017