Everything I couldn’t leave behind | Sarah Buckley at Blackwater Valley Makers

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Sarah Buckley is hosting her second solo show ‘Everything I couldn’t leave behind’ in Blackwater Valley Makers, Fermoy, from the 12th July to the 24th August 2025. Sarah Buckley is a visual artist based in North Cork. Working mainly in textiles while also incorporating sculpture and installation, Sarah’s work is a personal exploration of childhood memory, trauma, experience and identity. Playing on emotive motifs of childhood, her work delves into the psychological impact of having two infantile haemangiomas (benign vascular birthmarks). This exploration has led her to expand her curiosity and enquiry into psychic wounds, social acceptance of difference and visual impairment. Interested in engaging discussion around childhood memory and perception, she uses the medium of textiles for its accessibility of understanding, associations of childhood and slow, mediative production. Her exploration of childhood memory, trauma, and identity through the medium of textiles offers a deeply personal yet universally resonant perspective, addressing the complexities of difference and the lingering impacts of early experiences.

Sarah graduated with a BA in Visual Art (Sherkin Island) in 2018 and is currently undertaking a Special Award in Textiles (Level 8) in the Crawford College of art and design. Her work has been exhibited in Ireland and the UK and she received an Arts Council Agility Award in 2021. She was curator for the 2024 EMERGE exhibition by Cork Craft and Design. Sh regularly facilitates workshops for adults and children in all things textiles.