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By Sari Sutton
Artist Bio
Sari Sutton is a photographer and visual artist working in Ngunnawal country, Canberra. Her work, which incorporates digital, film and alternative processes, crosses genres – from documentary to the staged, conceptual and experimental. Through perceptive, astute observation, her work demonstrates insight into the state of the world, power, agency, choice and consequence – and the forces that shape the human experience.
 
 Sari has received recognition as a finalist in many prestigious awards including the 1854/British Journal of Photography. Her work was included in the 2020 Loud and Luminous volume ‘Equality’, featuring the work of 100 Australian women photographers. Sari is a 2024 Dark Matter artist-in-residence at Canberra’s PhotoAccess, where she has been developing a body of experimental darkroom work inspired by the celestial.
Artist Statement / Description of artwork
From the body of work 'Dark Energy', which investigates the invisible, but felt, forces of interconnectedness and energy between us, the earthly natural world and the celestial. It explores the dynamic tension between the known and the perhaps unknowable, between obscurity and revelation, and the magic elixirs of light and time, matter and energy – evoking notions of expansion and possibility. This photograph was taken just outside of Canberra in the early hours of 11 October 2024 during an intense geomagnetic storm.