Sara Trillo
3A Harnet Street
Sandwich
Kent CT13 9ES
07708 957069
e-mail: saratrillostudio@gmail.com
instagram: saratrillo
Projects 2025
Commissioned artist for 2025 Folkestone Triennial with “Urn Field” for “How Lies the Land?” curated by Sorcha Carey, July 19 - October 19 2025
“Ac Efer” for Gathering the Commons at St Stephen’s Chapel, West Norwood Cemetery curated by Bosse & Baum
“Nether Grill” for Clinging On, Glassyard Studios, London
“Katabasis” for Honkatonk at Limbo as part of Off Season, Margate
“Widders Dump” for Shadders, Project 78 Gallery, St Leonards-on-Sea
Projects 2024
“Netherworld” for Wasteless 2, Way Out East Gallery, University of East London, April
“In Earth” for The Tipping Point, Bell House, Dulwich, May
“Nether walk” commissioned walk for RCA/Kent Downs AONB at “The Making of a Meadow” at Rebel Farm, Brook, June curated by Dr Jessica Potter
Selected artist for “Ground Up” Residency, GroundWork Gallery, King’s Lynn, July/August: exhibition at GroundWork Gallery October 2024 with “Mouldiwarp”
“Swept Away” performative walk, Whitstable Biennale /Cement Fields Commission, Whitstable, September
“Alleycumfee” solo exhibition, Daphne Oram Gallery, Canterbury Christ Church University, Canterbury, September
“Marling” collaboration with Fiona Parry: research commission from Kent Downs AONB with outcomes exhibited at SALT + EARTH, Folkestone, October
Projects 2023
Commissioned artist for “Chaleur Humaine”, Dunkerque Triennale Art et Industrie, curated by Anna Colin and Camille Richert, Dunkerque, France: exhibition of “Holes in the Landscape” at the L.A.A.C. Dunkerque, June-January 2024: commissioned walk in Dunkerque “Sel-sable-craie”, September 2023
“Going Underground”, at Brewery Tap, Folkestone with Josephine Javier, for SALT + EARTH Festival of Landscape, September
“Precarious” for Re-enchanting the Commons at Celsius Projects , Malmö, August
Commissioned artist for The Od Festival, Somerset, curated by Cat Bagg and Simon Lee Dicker, May: exhibition of “Owler” at OSR Projects and commissioned “Holloways and Hideaways” public walks
Projects 2022
Holes in the Landscape, research commission for SALT + EARTH Festival of Landscape, Folkestone. Public talk at the Quarterhouse and two public walks, In Search of Lost Chalk, at Hucking and at Wye.
Owling for "On Gossip and the Glamour” curated by Kate Knight, Touchbase Gallery, Folkestone
Arborolatry for Compote, curated by Esme Bone and Anna Presilia, The Margate School Garden
A Gathering, curated by Peter Fillingham, Project 78, St Leonards on Sea
Walking the Deer Line, nine public walks across Thanet, funded by KCC/1927 Theatre
Some selected commissioned projects 2018-2021
2021 The Hortorium, for Sunken Ecologies curated by Anna Colin, for MargateNow 2021
2021 Touche du Bois, exhibition and residency at Château du Sacy, France, selected by Clotilde Boitel
2021 Hortus Conclusus for Terra Nexus, curated by Gabriella Sonabend, Proposition Studios, London
2021 Lomea for Precarious Straits, Estuary commission at TOMA, Southend-on-Sea
2021 The Mitre Owl, curated by David Orme/Joanna Whittle, Arcade Gallery, Sheffield
2020 The Search for Shuart, commissioned by Crate, Margate
2020 Island: edition for SwapArt Editions curated by Robin Tarbet, Creekside, Deptford and on-line at Skelf (skelf.org.uk)
2020 Art Licks Tele:12 Catarina de Oliveira, Boris Steiner, Sara Trillo, edited by Holly Willats
2020 Lomea for Sum Tyms Bytin Sum Tyms Bit (Riddley Walker Sum Poasyum) Canterbury
2019 Fire_Sand_Stone, exhibition/publication launch, Well Projects, Margate.
2019 Talkie-Walkie Walkie-Talkie, Frûctose, Dunkerque, France (funded residency)
2019 Summer Camp, Eastside Projects, Birmingham (funded residency)
2019 The Rushbearing Procession commission for Art in Romney Marsh at Newchurch, Romney Marsh.
2019 Bring Up The Boat, commission for MargateNow 2019 curated by Russell Tovey, Margate beach
2018 At the Violet Hour, Nayland Rock Hotel, Margate (collaborative installation with Chloe Ashley), curated by Chiara Williams and Shaun Stamp
2018 Pass It On, Crate, Margate: Jo Murray, Dipesh Pandya, Jay Rechsteiner, Heather Tait and Sara Trillo
2018 The Current is Coming Towards Us, Diana Duta, Sophie Mackfall, SaraTrillo, Arnis, Germany, curated by Christian Luebbert and Cristina Ramos
2018 The Ghost Tide, Thames-Side Studios Gallery, curated by Monika Bobinska and Sarah Sparkes.
2018 Hell, it's Us, Gavin Toye and Sara Trillo, Limbo, Margate
2018 Local Anywhere, Sluice HQ, Hackney, London
Selected as an Associate of Open School East 2017: projects included
Excavation Table for The Nightingale with Matthew Darbyshire, OSE, Margate
The Cave and PS (collaboration with Chloe Ashley) for Incomers Tour curated by Sally O’ Reilly, Lido, Margate
The Handling Collection for Spelunking with Benedict Drew: at Turner Contemporary, Margate (performance with Emma Gibson and Chloe Ashley)
Quest for The Well, curated by Cédric Fauq, OSE/Pettmans Building, Margate
Recent funding
2023 Fluxus Art Projects French Project Laureate, FRAC Grand Large
2023 1927 Theatre Bursary
2022 Artists Newsletter Time Space Money Bursary
2022 KCC Build Back Better funding
2021 1927 Theatre bursary
2020 Arts Council England Emergency funding
2019/2018/2017 PEATS funded residencies at Cyprus College of Art, Cyprus
2018 Artists Newsletter research bursary
2017 PEATS funded residency in Sultanhisar, Turkey studying ebru (paper marbling)