Sarah Cullen

Sarah Cullen is a visual artist who headed down the path of walking as a method for artwork, research, and alternative approaches to landscape. After the birth of her first child, she came to a fork in the road and took the diversion that eventually led to the creation of MOTHRA: Artist-Parent Project, which came to be in 2018 in Toronto. This diversion has since made its way back to the original path with many other forays along the way.

MOTHRA started as a grassroots project which has grown because of high interest and demand.  MOTHRA is interested in institutional critique, among other things, and has specifically focused on the artist residency as a site to welcome and admit to the important social relationships in our lives.  MOTHRA currently runs out of Gibraltar Point Centre for the Arts on Toronto Island.

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Sarah's current interests are moving towards the pedagogical aspects of a child-inclusive artist-parent project that she started, as an artist, in 2018. In particular she is interested in the extent to which the methods of non-hierarchical, collective, child-inclusive, practice-led learning and making aligns with curriculum and practice in post-secondary Contemporary Visual Arts education, and by dint of this asking, “How does learning change, and how does art change, when we admit to, and invite in, the important social relationships in our lives?”