Sara Downham-Lotto 2022 As Peace Studies Masters students, we had been exploring metaphors that can symbolise aspects of conflict engagement and/or peacebuilding. I (Sara) chose play, and facilitated a 10 minute...
Sara Downham-Lotto 2022 Community-building and empowering creative freedom ...
Sara Downham-Lotto 2021 'In December 2021 during a French lesson at the Institut Français in Saint-Louis, I found myself sitting beside a Catholic nun recently arrived from India. Both J. and...
Sara Downham-Lotto 2022 In early spring 2022, during her visit to Senegal, Sara, was given a studio space at Dakar’s Village des Arts, where over a period of a few weeks,...
Sara Downham-Lotto 2021 November - December 2021 saw Sara take the Arts Lab concept to Senegal, to work with Talibé street children at Maison de la Gare* in Saint-Louis. Unpacking the...
[vc_row css=".vc_custom_1633948695347{margin-top: 0px !important;}"][vc_column][vc_column_text]The hands on act of making the work is important there is always experimentation and I want to capture that playfulness in the sculpture. There is a...
[vc_row css=".vc_custom_1633948695347{margin-top: 0px !important;}"][vc_column][vc_column_text]My Illustration practice is inspired by psychology, folklore, dreams and bygone eras. I work in a variety of mediums to create images and 3D work including collage,...
Matt O’Halloran & Sara Downham-Lotto with Significant Seams - Summer 2021 Arts-based holiday programme for vulnerable teenagers, inspired by nature and collaboration. 'Exploring making, ecology, and connections between individuals, community and...
Burn the Curtain & Sara Downham-Lotto - Spring-Autumn 2021 Community cohesion. ‘Celebrating the extraordinary and the everyday, the places we love, and our hopes and dreams'. Burn the Curtain During the spring, summer and...