Sarah Hardacre is a visual artist, printmaker and cultural producer based in Manchester. In both her personal and public practice, Hardacre is a visual archivist and historian, immersed in trawling through images in public archives to reveal hidden narratives. Her collage and print works explore the experience of women within the urban built environment and the complex relationship between female bodies, architecture and space. And her public commissions extend to co-curated performances, community driven projects and large scale installations which investigate the sociohistorical stories of place.

 

Sarah’s work is represented by Paul Stolper Gallery, London, and is exhibited internationally. In 2023, her work featured in a major retrospective of 400 years of Women Artists at Sotheby’s London. Her work is held in public and private collections worldwide including the British Museum and Damien Hirst’s MurderMe collection.

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“Hardacre’s practice is both motivated and informed by her working-class northern identity, and by the complex social, civic and political histories that make up that context. She is especially interested in what that changing context has meant for women. She is also fascinated by the ongoing possibilities of the north of England and the ideas that it has about itself, both its roots and its living heritage. She is a woman who makes her work in a mill, for example. She clog dances. She comes from a family of trade unionists who had something to say about justice and quality of life for working people, and her work has something to say about those things too. She is interested in intention and experience, in sexuality and structure”

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(Greg Thorpe, Brutal/Beautiful: Sarah Hardacre in Conversation, The Fourdrinier, 2021)