Sarah Paramor creates contemporary basketry for exhibition and for the catwalk.
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Please see CV for more information on exhibitions and collaborations.
Four pieces in "Basketry: Rhythm, Renewal & Reinvention" at Ruthin Craft Centre from 25 September 2021 to 9 January 2022.
Work in "Rock Paper Scissors" at Houghton Hall 2021.
One of eight makers on Craft Scotland's COMPASS: Emerging Maker Programme 2019. My Craft Scotland page.
Participant in the Applied Arts Scotland "Shift Canada" programme, 2019/21
Two pieces in "Basketry: Function & Ornament" at Ruthin Craft Centre from 20 June to 13 October 2019.
First solo show, "Bags, Bottles & Baskets", Inverness Museum, 15 June to 3 August 2019.
Please see CV for more information on exhibitions and collaborations.
Sarah Paramor lives and works in Applecross on the west coast of Scotland.
More images of Sarah's work can be seen on Instagram and there is an episode of Fillte on BBC Alba partly devoted to her work.
Sarah's "A Bag for Isobel", a plaited hairmoss basket, is in the Isobel Wylie Hutchison Collection at Carlowrie Castle. "Dark Tendril Bag", made of corsetry boning, won second prize in the Worshipful Company of Basketmakers’ Best Basket 2018 competition; her "Highland Hairmoss Basket", in which she plaited local hairmoss to resemble tweed on one side and Astro Turf on the other, won third prize in the same competition in 2017. Sarah uses techniques learnt from traditional basketmakers.
THANK YOUS...
Remembering Jonathan Booth, Hub Photographer, whose photos first made me feel like a basketmaker, and whose loss is so keenly felt by everyone who was lucky enough to know him. Thank you for "Aurora", too. xx
And thank you to AIM Photography for photos of the "Hairmoss Capsule Bag", "Dark Tendril Bag", "Sea Frond Bag", "Off the Map" baskets, "Sanctuary", "Heather Stepper", "Just Walking Home", to Anna Deacon for the "A Bag for Isobel" photos, and to Takako Copeland for the logo.
