SARAH BREEN LOVETT
Blue Body
Image: Blue Body Single-channel video 5 mins 2021, Salon 2, Mount Victoria Manor
Blue Body is an extension of a practice focused on deepening interconnectivity between ourselves and the environment around us. Using mindfulness training and meditative experiences, this voice / video work sits between guided meditation and spoken word performance. Blue Body is a shorter version of a longer work, Contemplating Blue.
Daily Meditation Fragments
Single-channel video 7 mins 2020 Salon 2, Mount Victoria Manor
Thumbnail image: Daily Meditation Fragments
Daily Meditation Fragments is made up of fragments of Sarah’s daily meditation journal, written when undergoing mindfulness teacher training, meditating for twenty minutes each day, for a period of eight weeks. The subtleties of shift in experience each day were extremely noticeable, surprising, and uplifting.
Dr Sarah Breen Lovett was born on Gundungurra and Darug Country in the Blue Mountains of Australia. She is engaged in a combined practice of: academia, architecture, biophilia, contemporary art, curation and mindfulness. This practice is focused on deepening understandings of relationships between the self and the environment around us. This has taken the form of landscape installations, socially engaged practices, participatory performances, digital video and voice recording. She has exhibited as artist & curator in Australia, Chile, Germany, Ireland, Italy, New Zealand, Portugal, UK, Ireland & USA in a number of indoor and outdoor exhibitions. As an academic Sarah has presented her work in conferences in Australia, Ireland & UK. Sarah has created many publications about her practice and curatorial works with publishers such as The Bauhaus Dessau, Bloomsbury, Intellect and Routledge. Sarah hosts peripatetic podcast ‘hereness’ examining creative practices for connecting body, place & space through discussions with artists. Sarah writes,
hereness is a state of consciousness
attained by focusing on being here :
in a body, in a place and in space
hereness enhances one’s:
awareness of being,
sense of wellbeing,
relationships with others &
bond with this earth
hereness can be realised
through activities such as:
following the breath,
feeling your body &
observing the place
and space around you
hereness is also cultivated through
many creative practices
