Zoe Sanby

Zoe Sanby enjoys using the public as a material to create conceptual works of art that initiate conversation towards the idea of people being art. Sanby explores the public by engaging them within her practice and translates these sources into provocative pieces. With her observational approach and use of multi-media, the artist’s practice focuses on themes of community, location, and perspectives.

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Looking at You raises our attention to how we subconsciously perceive other people and illuminates this acknowledgement through the beauty and power of the simplicity of words. Sanby delves into reinventing identities through exaggeration and manipulation of the public’s perspectives of one another. Depicting descriptive and poetic traits, she celebrates the simplicity of these words in a conceptual manor that illuminates these unnoticed connections we involuntary involve ourselves in every day. Sanby has been challenged to work online due to Covid-19 restrictions but has taken advantage of this time to work with her social-media crowd. The impact of this has involved transitioning from an installation approach to a digital style to practice the dematerialisation of the art object.