Sarah Roberts is a Welsh Artist, living and working in Leeds and London working with objects, media and images - amassing them into installations and multimedia works spanning sculpture, scent, sound, drawing, collage, and text. Roberts draws inspiration from everyday life - from beachfront cafes and casinos to hospital beds, combining industrial leftovers like plaster, and plastics with domestic detritus, and crafted ceramics and glass, to create new regenerative environments on an architectural scale. 

These playful spaces are loaded with underpinning ecological concerns. Roberts originally trained as a sociologist, this is reflected in her obsessive taxonomies and non-hierarchical approach to installation. There’s a clear duality in the work, in trying to simplify things but producing a mass complexity of material. 

In the broadest sense, works allow us to question the value we place on objects. Offering moments to navigate, and make visible intimate systems, classifications and ecologies in which objects and materials carry and attribute meaning. On a more personal level Roberts is processing her own back catalogue of ephemera and trauma. As keeper of her own archive, with personal experience of familial hoarding and estate clearance, she operates from an internal position in this compulsive arrangement we have with ‘stuff’.