Sarah Blissett

Sarah Blissett is an artist, writer and dramaturg working between visual art and performance. Her interdisciplinary practice explores how performance can remember and reimagine human-nonhuman entanglements at a time of climate crisis. Her work is rooted in site-based practice and includes performance, installations and workshops as different ways to think through, and digest, material relationships between bodies and environments. She is the founder and co-director of SOAK Live Art CIC (Support Our Artist Kin), a multidisciplinary platform for experimental performance by South West artists. With SOAK, she curates and runs an ongoing series of live art events and runs the SOAK Lab as a space for artistic research.

Sarah is also lecturer in performance at the University of Plymouth where her current research investigates ways of working at the thresholds between land and water through site-responsive performance. She is interested in how performance can foster new forms of creative collaboration and participatory practice. She is the guest editor of the CSPAQ43 (Centre for Sustainable Practice in the Arts) on ‘Intertidal Encounters’.

Recent projects include: Tidal Tongues with Art Inside Out and Varbergs Konsthall (2025), Alluvial Matters, at Gallery 333, Exeter Phoenix (2024), Sea Shadow at Entre Vagos (2024), River Rememberings at Modern Art Oxford (2022), Marking Tidetime at Totally Thames Festival (2022), How Nature Builds at Modern Art Oxford (2019-22), Kelp Curing at Lofoten International Art Festival (LIAF) (2019).

Past works have been commissioned and shown nationally and internationally with organisations including Art Inside out, Exeter Phoenix, Modern Art Oxford, Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade de Lisboa Gallery, Mustarinda, Lofoten International Arts Festival, Arnolfini, Philosophy Unbound, Mere Literary festival, Whitstable Biennale, Battersea Arts Centre, Something Other, Cultivamos Cultura, Little Angel Theatre, LADA, The Pigeon Wing and Platform 1 Gallery, among others.