THE ARTIST
Sarah Button is an independent artist born in Gothenburg, Sweden. Growing up crossing continents (such as North America, Africa & Europe) she hasn’t been able to fully root in any specific place. Unsure how to answer where she is from she feels a somewhat sense of home in Malmö, Sweden.
In 2018, she moved to Indonesia and became the first Artist in Resident in the Innovation Hub at the well-known Green School Bali.
Prior to that she had a tour showcasing her work at the world famous Chelsea Flower Show in London (2017) .
With varying upbringing and studies, she is constantly searching for forms of expression and purpose in the discarded. She has strong ambitions to take creative responsibility towards a positive change.
“My work has always been focused on recreating abandoned materials to draw attention to socio-cultural and environmental complexities. Colorful, sharp forms and unexpected elements are characteristic of my works.”
She is a Founding member of Art Collective SYSTERIA & Pohon Mimpi Creative Agency.
Besides creating with her hands, she enjoys photography.
See through the lens of Sarah Button.
EXHIBITION TOUR
ART
SCAPE
2019
Ljusdal, Sweden
2-4 August 2019
Artscape is a non-profit and one of the world’s leading urban art organisations – producing groundbreaking projects since 2014.
ARTSCAPE 2019 LJUSDAL is the event that let rural Sweden compete with the global megacities for urban art supremacy. The rockstars of the art world invaded idyllic Ljusdal (“valley of light”) with large-scale murals, installations and sculptures.
CHELSEA FLOWER SHOW
London, UK
23-27 May 2017
World-renowned garden designers, plant specialists, florists and nurseries come together every year to one of London’s most charming and affluent neighbourhoods to show off cutting-edge garden designs and inspirational floral exhibits.
Stroll through show-stopping and award-winning gardens. Discover rare flowers and plants. Spot emerging gardening trends. See creative floral artworks and unusual displays. And browse the horticultural products on sale, from gardening gadgets to sculptures and plants.
The garden design equivalent to Paris Fashion Week, the show attracts more than 150,000 visitors each year, including members of the Royal Family.
WALL OF
FAME
Stockholm, Sweden
26-28 May 2017
Three days of fun with Graffiti & Street Art at Snösätra; Scandinavias largest Graffiti Festival by Snösätra kultur, in collaboration with StreetCorner.
GALLERY FRANK
Malmö, Sweden
9-16 June 2017
Sarah Buttons first Solo Exhibition, proudly presented by Gallery FRANK in Malmö.
We invite you to experience a captivating form of expression from the spray can – explosive colors in the form of spatial sculptures, paintings with rescued spray paint and interactive works from the disassembled spray can.
WHY GRAFFITI
Växjö, Sweden
30 June – 10 September 2017
Urban art has a long history and is created just like other arts and cultural forms in its context and in different forms of society and events. Artists have always borrowed from the street. Now the street have been established in the art rooms.
In the exhibition Why Graffiti? Växjö konsthall has invited a number of norm-breaking street artists who highlight different aspirations, sacrifices and behind the curtains of illegal urban art.
EXHIBITIONS
Photography Exhibition ‘Mireng’
Bali, Indonesia, 13 September 2020
Campur Kembali v.5
Bali, Indonesia, 18 January 2020
Campur Kembali v.4
Bali, Indonesia, 6 December 2019
Malmö Gallery Night
Malmö, Sweden, 28 September 2019
ARTSCAPE 2019
Ljusdal, Sweden, 2 August 2019 – ongoing
Spray Candelier
The Green School Bali, November 2018 – January 2020
Campur Kembali v.2
Canggu Bali, 24 November 2018
Systeria
Malmö Gallery Night, 30 September 2017
Why Graffiti?
Växjö Konsthall, 30 June – 10 September 2017
“Övergivna Färger”
Solo Exhibition at Gallery Frank
Malmö, June 2017
Graffiti Wall of Fame
Stockholm, 26-28 May 2017
Chelsea Flower Show
London, 23-27 May 2017
”Vass Kontrast”
Eskilstuna, March 2017
Alternativa Julmarknaden
Lund, November 2016
Emmaus Remake
Lund, November 2016
Expansion, Inkonst
Malmö, 21-23 October, 2016
Öppet Galleri
Galleri Frank, Malmö, 12-14 August, 2016
Metamorphos Feminist Design & Art market
Gothenburg, March, 2016
Sörmexmässan
Eskilstuna, November 2013.
”Julitas Trädgård under 500 år”
Julita, Nordic Museum, June 2013.
”På väg åt rätt håll – ett hållbart projekt”
Länstrafiken Sörmland & Veolia Transport, Eskilstuna, April 2013.
”Årets Julgran”
Munktell Science Park, Eskilstuna, December 2012.
EDUCATION
Seeing Through Photographs
MoMA The Museum of Modern Art, Coursera, 2020
Creative Business
Hellidens Community College, Tidaholm, 2016-2017
Design for Sustainable Development
Malmö University, Malmö 2014
Recycle Design,
Eskilstuna Community College, Eskilstuna 2013-2014
Media & Visual Communication,
Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane Australia, 2011
Interaction Design,
Malmö University, Malmö 2009-2012
OTHER PROJECTS
Pohon Mimpi
Cofounder of Creative Agency ‘Pohon Mimpi’ May 2020
Mural Installation
Lala Land Creative Studio in Bali, January 2020
Systeria Art Collective
Founding Member
Systeria is an art collective risen from the queer, feminist, anti-racist and anti-fascist activist movements fighting to take place in the art scene and it’s the white patriarchal power structures.
Representation of diverse voices in the art world is essential.