ARTWORK
Overview
PROJECTS
Sarah Hutt explores memory, dreams and the ever-changing reality they create through mixed media sculptural projects rooted in drawing.
Mining her dreams, memories and lived experience, Hutt combines everyday objects, traditional art materials, and language in project-based artworks which often bear the mark of her hand in some way, such as Daily Diary, a 12-year self-portrait project comprised of more than 3,000 small-scale gestural clay figures incorporating found objects, and My Mother’s Legacy, a 1,000 line poem of memories of her mother that she burned into the bottom of 1,000 wooden bowls.
While the impetus for her projects is often personal — needing to remember, to process, to understand, to maintain a sense of self — Hutt’s projects use this autobiographical element as a portal to the commonalities of human emotional and psychological experience, and indeed many of her projects invite the viewer directly into the work through interactive elements.
PUBLICATIONS
Hutt's book My Mother's Legacy documents and tells the story of her My Mother's Legacy project, including the full text of the poem, and the project was also featured in MIT Press’ architectural theory journal Assemblage.
COMMISSIONED ARTWORKS
Hutt also works with the memories of others, creating commissioned artworks such as Our Friend, a temporary art installation commissioned to honor the memory of a beloved Cambridge Center for Adult Education student by her teacher and fellow students.