“A blend of quasi-religious iconography, personal memory, poetic allusion and feminist semiotics.” – The Irish Times, 2025
Sarah Long is an artist based in Cork City. She creates autofiction which she translates across painting, installation, performance and writing. She identifies reverberations in Irish culture and combines these references with personal stories and motifs. She views this rearranging and reinterpreting of histories and visualities as an act of feminist fictioning, highlighting moments and ideas that haunt, shape and subjugate our collective consciousness.
Her recent solo shows include I will not flower, South Tipperary Arts Centre, Clonmel (2025)and The Licks Within The Lip, St. Luke’s Crypt, Cork City (2023). Her recent group shows include Rua Red, Dublin (2025); STARLING, Limerick (2025) and Pallas Projects / Studios, Dublin (2024-25).
She holds an MLitt in Art Writing from Glasgow School of Art and a BA (Hons) in Fine Art from Crawford College of Art & Design.
Sarah’s debut novella W/w, featuring her autofictional character Mary, was published by Bloomers in 2024. Read an excerpt on RTÉ Culture here.
Press
2025: prosody 16 Podcast, Conversation with James Merrigan
2025: Pallas Projects/Studios YouTube Channel, In conversation with Miguel Amado
2025: Fermynwoods Podcast, Interview by Marie-Chantal Hamrock
2025: Moments of Recognition substack, ‘On past lives, new futures’ (Response to W/w by Sinéad Gleeson)
2024: RTÉ Culture ‘W/w by Sarah Long – Read an extract’
2021: The Gloss ‘The Best Exhibitions To See in October’
2019: Visual Artists’ News Sheet, ‘Critique: Sarah Long ‘Kingdom’
Sarah’s autofiction writings are in numerous publications including; Pala Press, MAP Magazine, Tír na nÓg Literary Journal; and This is not a biography*: An Anthology of Biographical Fictioning, published by The Yellow Paper Press (2023).
She also produces criticism and reflects on current visual culture. Since 2020, she managesThe Paper, an online artist-led publisher of art writing and criticism. In 2022, she was awarded the John Calcutt Prize for Critical Writing from Glasgow School of Art and in 2023, she was the inaugural Critic in Residence at Sirius Arts Centre in Cobh. Recent writing includes: Visual Artists News Sheet, Enclave Review and MAP Magazine.
Sarah Long | Artist 