Sara Trillo
Sara Trillo’s research whilst at OSE has been materials led, using the Thanet foreshore and research into its archaeology, geography and mythology as a focus for this investigation. For ‘The Well’, she created ‘The Quest”, a bitumen clad sledge and boxes containing objects positioned in, containing, or formed by immersion in water, along with tools for excavating these constructed from materials found in the ebb and flood. Throughout the year, she has collaborated with fellow associate Chloe Ashley on casting projects and excavation techniques, using ice casting as a focus for a public stalagmite-making collaboration on the ‘Spelunking’ project, and excavating large scale plaster forms designed by Ashley on the Lido sand as a performance during ‘The Incomers’ project. For ‘The Incomers’, Sara Trillo also made a sound piece, ‘The Cave’, constructed from fragments of interviews with a beachcomber. This interest in reformed narratives also manifested itself in ‘The Handling Trolley’, when for OSE ‘Spelunking: Underground Ceremonies’ at Turner Contemporary Sara Trillo, Chloe Ashley and Emma Gibson invited the public to scrutinise their collection of found objects, ascribing each with a mythical story.
Outside of OSE, in 2017 Sara Trillo has studied the documentation of archaeological finds with marine archaeologists excavating the wreck of the Roojswijk on the Goodwin Sands, and spent time in Turkey on a funded trip to study ebru (paper marbling). She will continue to work from Margate as a director and studio holder at Limbo, which provides studios and a project space in Margate’s old town.