Sarah Sandler
Updated — 13/11/2025

A Hollow Full Thing

A Hollow Full Thing, 2018
Exhibition, Lokal-int, Bienne (Switzerland)
Photos : © Guadalupe Ruiz

« The woven composition of A Hollow Full Thing (2019) taps into this common history of plants circulation and transplantation. Exploring the artificial landscape of Australia, resulting from the colonial appropriation of land and knowledge, Sarah Sandler arranges works, of an evident tactile materiality, in a silent choreography. Seen from the window of Lokal-int, her installation allows for a non-penetrative gaze and presents "hollow full" hand-blown glass and skeletal earth sculptures replicating the predecessors of the flexible bag or hermetic container. » [...] 

— Clelia Coussonnet, excerpt from a text written for the exhibition

Suspended Panel, 2019
Australian endemic seeds, soil, ochre, synthetic and natural fabric, latex, steel
210 x 100 cm

Attempts to Re-Naturalise, 2017
Wax, polymer, organic matter, ceramic
variable dimensions

On the left : Panier, 2017
Mud, steel wire
55 x 70 x 36 cm

On the right : Vessel, 2017
Blown glass
47 x 23 cm