Sarah Morrah: Neural Bloom
March 14 @ 5:00 pm – April 26 @ 4:00 pm
Sarah Morrah: Neural Bloom
14 March – 26 April 2025
DEPOT 3 Vic Road
3 Victoria Road, Devonport
Exhibition Opening:
Friday 14 March, 5-7pm
Image Credit: Fragments of Then, Watercolour, photography, pastel, collage, 2024. Image courtesy of Sarah Morrah.
About the Exhibition
Sarah Morrah’s work pulses with the energy of transformation, thoughts turned into clay, memories layered in paint. As both artist and doctor, she navigates the intricate relationship between mind and body, where creativity becomes both an exploration and an escape.
Her ceramics are sculpted synapses, vibrant with the electricity of neural pathways, each piece a physical manifestation of intangible thought. These forms feel alive, shaped by the unseen currents of the mind, rendered in bright, tactile hues.
Sarah’s “thoughts on paper”, feel like layered daydreams, or déjà vu. They unfold like memories revisited, familiar yet changed, glued together with the quiet persistence of the past on our present.
Alongside these, her still-life floral paintings breathe new life into a time-honored subject. Watercolour pools and evaporates, leaving behind organic patterns. These delicate works are then deconstructed and reassembled with found images, her photography, and paint, forming collages that feel both intuitive and deeply considered.
Rooted in a feminist sensibility, Sarah embraces craft and multimedia, seeing all forms of making as equally valid. She has always been drawn to the act of creation, first through contemporary jewellery, and now through painting and sculpture. Even as she pursued medicine, art remained a constant undercurrent, her first paycheck as a junior doctor funding night classes in jewellery making.
Neural Bloom is a meditation on the power of our thoughts. Each work carries a whisper of something both ephemeral and enduring, like our neural pathways, like thoughts blooming into form.
About the Artist
Sarah Morrah is an emerging visual artist working in painting and sculpture and based in Auckland. She predominantly makes works with contemporary watercolour techniques, photography and collage. Her art is often floral, sometimes surreal and sits somewhere between figurative and abstract.
Morrah is largely self-taught in painting and ceramics. She has always been creative, originally having an interest in contemporary jewellery making. She obtained a diploma in Jewellery Manufacturing and Design from MIT in 2012 while working as a GP. Sarah has always had a strong art practice alongside her career as a Doctor. Using her first paycheque as a junior Dr. in Wellington to pay for night classes in jewellery making. She has since exhibited in contemporary jewellery and sold under her own brand. Over the last several years Morrah has been concentrating her practice in painting with collage and ceramics.
