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Sarah_Grace

Hello and welcome to my world of collecting, creating and sharing stories.


I collect objects, paper, packaging and ephemera along with a plethora of related stories some true and some imagined narrative. My art practice is about documenting, recording, collecting and sharing these stories through drawing, making paper and creating artist’s books. If you enjoy what you see here I would love to stay in touch with you. I endeavour to share a monthly newsletter about what I have been making and doing along with sharing about any courses or fairs I am involved in. There may be a few hints and tips along the way and definitely copious amounts of colourful inspiring images. If that appeals to you please sign up below and I will look forward to being in touch soon.

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Matchbook number one

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First matchbox revamp happened on a train journey travelling from Kochi to Kozhikode about a four hour journey. I went prepared to pass the time creating my first book. I had only been in India for about three days but it doesn’t take long for me to start collecting. I had also come to India with a selection of pre prepared cyanotype papers and had already made a couple of prints of leaves I had found whilst wandering around Kochi.

The rest of my collection consisted of bus tickets, part of another matchbox, local newspaper cuttings and bits of flyers I found lying around. Obviously I am not remotely fluent in Malayalam the local language of Kerala but the shapes of the letters are so beautiful and poetic they were begging to be shown off. The journey flew by and I was very contented with my first creation.

Matchbox heaven

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A couple of posts back I shared with you my found matchbox collection from India. I have been busy working on them transforming them into little homes for handmade collage books made from all the bits and pieces I collected on the way. At this stage special mention has to go out to Maggie one of my travelling companions who spent most of the time away handing over all of the ephemera that came her way (when not travelling she lives in a shed so has nowhere to store all these bits and bobs which turned out to be my very good luck!) We became life long friends, I love a person who collects rubbish for me.

So here is a little teaser, I will write a post about each one in turn as there is so much going on in each book they deserves their own space to shine and tell their story. But for now a quick peek at the first four beauties.