Sarah May Taylor is a Toronto based multidisciplinary artist currently focusing on Sculpture and Art & Social Change at OCADU. In her previous life, Sarah spent almost a decade hosting Canadian music television which solidified her affection for inquiries into the human experience, representations of women, and their relationships to power. Since then Sarah’s focus has realigned to the possibilities of utilizing art as social change. She created The Crazy Project, which tells the stories of folks existing along the continuum of mental wellness, using photography and written interviews. Her sculpture and installation work commonly examines elements of the female body in relation to physical space and fracture. To date, her work has been featured in multiple gallery spaces including special installations in her hometown at the Art Gallery of Hamilton, and the MOCA in Toronto.
Sarah’s multidisciplinary practice explores the human body, especially representations of the female form and the role of the divine in respect to notions of identity and fracture. These themes are highlighted through the construction of bodily forms made with plaster, concrete and metals, and blended with concentrations of light, to create intimate installations that are designed to psychologically integrate the viewer into the space. She uses her work as a way to celebrate the curiosity of grief, life-death cycles, and the body in relationship to ritual, and as a way to offer examinations of beauty which meditate on questions about how to collect the pieces and return back to ourselves.