Sarah Plummer is a collaborative printer, writer, and maker, lately of Australia and more recently of California. Raised on Bidjigal and Dharawal lands and waters, she moved to the USA to pursue a Bachelor of Fine Arts, Printmaking at Rhode Island School of Design before attending Tamarind Institute's Professional Printer Training Program for collaborative lithography. Sarah has worked on fine-art prints at Wingate Studio, Gemini G.E.L., Crow’s Shadow Institute of the Arts, and for the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Since 2022 she has operated Speck Editions on unceded Tongva/Gabrielino land—in Los Angeles. In addition to this, Sarah works alongside her forever-friend, Tom Kracauer, as Co-Creative Director and Master Lithographer of Problems Printing.
Sarah also serves as a consultant for the Center for Retrofitting and Failure Techniques (C.R.A.F.T.), located on the sacred lands of the Hupačasath First Nation at Ahswinnis Reserve (Port Alberni, British Columbia), contributing to the research and creation of Naaqʔiisamis N̓ism̓aqał, A Respectful Map of Our Land — and supporting the establishment of a net-negative print studio.
Sarah is captivated by the alchemic expanse of lithography and loves things that seem impossible. While she finds the opportunity to bring well-honored, innovative approaches to artists and their work as one of the greatest pleasures, Sarah’s own work—print and otherwise—leads an investigation into land, memory, material, grief, love, and freedom.
She has been awarded residencies at Kala Art Institute, Chalk Hill Artist’s Residency, and Bundanon. She has recently exhibited at Heaven Gallery, Reisig & Taylor Contemporary, and has led workshops and presentations at Hiromi Paper, Flatbed Press, Grey Hand Press, MCASD (Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego) and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney.
Since this bio is already too long (!), please check back in for a list of publications.
Please reach out to Sarah if you are interested in purchasing work, or for inquiries regarding potential collaborations, contract jobs, or printmaking workshops. Sarah also provides technical consultation, archiving services and minor print restoration.
email: speckeditions@gmail.com
Video by Ryan John Allison; courtesy Tamarind Institute, 2020.
Panelist, “Working Together: Perspectives on Collaboration, Diversity, and Womxn in Print, Museum of Contemporary Art”, San Diego, 2021.