Sarah Fuller is a settler-Canadian artist of Icelandic and British descent who works across the mediums of photography, video and installation. She has been an artist in residence at the Ós Residency in Blönduós, Iceland, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Laughing Waters in Nillumbick Shire, Australia, the Klondike Institute of Art and Culture, Yukon, Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Italy, and the Association of Visual Artists (SIM), Iceland. She holds an MFA from the University of Ottawa and a BFA from Emily Carr University.
Sarah has taught photography for 20 years, including international workshops in France, Croatia, and Australia. From 2005-2015 she was the Photography Facilitator in the Creative Residencies programme at Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity and from 2006-2012 served on the Board of the Exposure Photography Festival in Banff/ Calgary.
Recent exhibitions include Redesigning Paradise at the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies with artists Mary Anne Barkhouse, Dianne Bos and Penelope Stewart, Terra Incogknita at PLATFORM centre for photographic + digital arts, and Refugio at the University of Lethbridge Art Gallery. Her video work has been screened at Art on the Screens (Mississauga 2019) and Photophobia (Hamilton 2019). In 2022, Sarah collaborated with Julia Taffe, Aeriosa Dance Company (Vancouver) and Keri Latimer (Winnipeg) on the vertical dance piece Habitats and Camouflage at the Tofino Tree Festival. In 2017 she was commissioned by the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity to create the Canada 150 project Human/Nature in collaboration with Moment Factory (Montreal).
Sarah’s work is in public and private collections including the Canada Council for the Arts Art Bank, the Alberta Foundation for the Arts, the Walter Phillips Gallery, the Indie Photobook Library and Global Affairs Canada.