Sarah Burford is a collage and mixed media artist. Her practice brings together found photographs, natural imagery, and dynamic color in works that explore the inner lives of women, parents, caregivers, and families. Inspired by the modernist aesthetics of Dada and Surrealism, Sarah’s work juxtaposes surreal and natural imagery to reveal the complex emotions and identities that surface through the lived experience of parenthood, maternity, and struggles with fertility. Many of her works use photographs, magazines, calendars, or public archival collections as primary source material, including images of figures who are anonymous or unidentified. In a current ongoing series, Sarah’s collages depict women, caregivers, and families whose forms fuse with the natural landscape, evoking a sense of rootedness, stability, and strength. Through her creative practice, Sarah seeks to bring visibility and new narrative life to the too often unnoticed and undervalued labor of womanhood, motherhood, and parenthood.

Sarah’s work has been shown in exhibitions at Rhizome DC, with Phototrouvée Magazine, and published in the Smithsonian Institution’s Annual Report. She is the COO of CANVAS and lives with her husband and daughters in Washington, D.C.