Sari Walker-Woods

Sari Walker-Woods is a Sydney based emerging artist practicing on Gadigal land with a Bachelor of Fine Art at the National Art School.

Her practice largely works with remembrance and testament of surface through the archival agency of ‘trace’ as a fossil. Walker-Woods’ practice is conspicuous with the processes of collection, observation and preservation of discarded bodily matter including textual fragments. Casts and embossings allow the lingering trace of speech to become archived by the solid artifact.

12 | Sari Walker-Woods, Numbing Agent, 2022, concrete relief mounted on steel frame, 101 x 30 x 40 cm. $550.

13 | Sari Walker-Woods, Tactile Fantasy, 2022, concrete and latex relief with steel mounts, 30 x 20 cm. $380.

14 | Sari Walker-Woods, Excavate, 2022, installation of fragmented concrete reliefs with steel mounts, 30 x 63 cm. $250.

There is an interactive play within this series of textual relief casts that allow the artworks to capture the tensions, pressures and intricate scarification of a surface in their linguistic traces. As such, the casts are recognised as mixed media relief prints that function as intimate contact relics and archive the forensic examination of translation, interaction and interdimensional trauma between object and its touch.