(click image for more details)Threaded Table, 2008
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Fat Stack, 2008
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Plectrum Type Plinth for English Craft Object, 2008
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Sarah Staton is an artist whose work crosses boundaries into many other creative fields, including design, fashion and architecture. She makes work for both traditional exhibition spaces as well as for non-gallery sites and uses a variety of different media to navigate the space between memory and the present, and between high and low culture.
In the early the 1990s her 'SupaStore' project gave a new slant on the tradition of artists' multiples and low-cost art works, creating a series of art mini-marts – simultaneously both a platform for other artists' work and a site-specific installation by Staton herself – that changed contexts with each new presentation.
Staton's multi-disciplinary investigation of cultural production continues to inform her more recent work, in which she continues to experiment with arrangements of work, the use of objects and systems of display in the creation of new narratives.
Her working methods often involve detailed planning, including various forms of drawings, scale models, as well as watercolours, a most recent area for Staton. Originally executed as preparatory studies for her sculptural installations, she so liked the results that she proceeded to develop them as a strand of her practice in their own right. The watercolours exhibited at Future50 are preparatory drawings for her recent exhibition at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park and are reproduced in the catalogue that accompanied the exhibition.
Paul Stone, 2008
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