Sarah Cadogan

Engaging with the perception of memorial and loss, the work is an emotive homage to lives lost at sea. A journey to the ocean floor revisits the history inscribed there.

"the thing I came for:
the wreck and not the story of the wreck
the thing itself and not the myth
the drowned face always staring
toward the sun
the evidence of damage
worn by salt and away into this threadbare beauty
the ribs of the disaster
curving their assertion
among the tentative haunters."

Adrienne Rich - Diving into the Wreck.

Thesis: Jan Dibbets and Gerhard Richter: photography and perception.

Tutor: Sarah Foster