About

About Sarah

Sarah Ducker’s creative life has evolved through a number of different media, from theatre direction to documentary film-making, before finding its most eloquent expression in photography.

Originally completing her high school studies in London, she returned to Australia to study film and television at UTS and went on to complete a post graduate degree in directing at NIDA.

A visit to the desert near Broken Hill inspired her first exhibition. The photographs captured small moments of life on the ground and the ephemeral beauty of the natural world, a theme that has become the core motif of her work.

After spending some weeks at the Kenneth Myer Artistic Residency in the New Zealand alps, Sarah presented her second exhibition, “Fragility”.

Her next exhibition, “Gratitude’ opened in May 2017 at the Barometer Gallery as part of the Head On festival and was met with great acclaim. Once again, Sarah immersed herself in the fragile abstracted repetitions and expressions of the natural world, this time in sand.

Her exhibition A Testament opened online May 1-17 2020 as part of the Head On Festival. It was exhibited at the Barometer Gallery.

Regardless of the subject matter, Sarah’s work reflects the pure charisma of nature through a refined and sensitive eye. Every image is invested with the lyricism of the poetic in nature. Jean-Pierre Siméon observation that “a poem is where you hear the heartbeat of a stone” is reversed in Sarah’s imagery.

Whether she turns her eye to the mountains, the desert or the coastline, a stone is where you see the heartbeat of a poem.

> Review of the Gratitude show

> Review of the Fragilty show