Sarah Eyre

Sarah Eyre’s practice and research interests use a range of moving and still lens-based approaches to explore the relationships between wigs and hair, society and the fashioning of female identities. Recently she has exhibited work in Dean Clough Halifax, QUAD, Derby, as part of Format Photography Festival, Paper Gallery, Manchester, South Square Gallery, Bradford, Madlab and Cornerhouse, Manchester. Her work has been published in Source Magazine, Of the Afternoon, The Skinny and Hunger.tv. Sarah completed a BA (Hons) in Photography at Nottingham Trent University, and an MA in Documentary Film Production at the University of Salford and she is currently undertaking a PhD by Practice at Manchester School of Art.

Lady Lane (2017)

Lady Lane is new work that draws on associations of desire and consumption through the use of appropriated fashion imagery. Reoccurring motifs of swallowing up, possession, control, internalization and expulsion are suggested through mouths, mirrors, holes and other kinds of orifice which connect the inside and surface of the body. The rough cut and paste of the collages and the stuttering movement of the animated gifs destabilise the smooth glossiness of the original images and maybe, through the re-figuration of materials could suggest playful possibilities for a re-negotiation of relationships between the female body and its representations.