In Sanctuary

Sarah Dugan
7 May - 1 June 2025

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Image: Sarah Dugan, Penumbra.

In Sanctuary, an exhibition by Sarah Dugan, employs visual storytelling to consider the ideological relationships that shape so-called frontiers within rural Australia. Drawing upon photographic and filmic visual language, she gestures toward social perceptions and interactions embedded within landscapes.

Evoking the transcendental and the tangible, the artist brings the viewer into proximity with sanctuaries, rituals, and memories shaped by the vast Australian landscape. In doing so, Dugan offers reverence and longing for these familiar yet remote spaces, extending the legacies they hold and the impressions they leave on those connected to them.

Through drawing, photography, and lumen prints, Dugan deconstructs the landscape—meditating on abstracted light, horizons, movement, and scale, highlighting culturally inscribed geographies.

Sarah Dugan is a multidisciplinary artist whose work is deeply informed by her remote upbringing and the layered narratives of society and history embedded within the landscapes of her childhood. 

Sarah holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) from the National Art School, where she was awarded the Clitheroe Foundation Fellowship (2013) and the Storrier Onslow NAS Studio Residency at Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris (2015). Dugan was awarded the NSW Young Regional Artist Scholarship to undertake a residency at Red Gate, Beijing (2017), and has continued to examine environments in recent solo exhibitions Horizons, Homesickness, and In Sanctuary. 

 

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