Sarah Entwistle (b. 1979, London, UK) is a British artist and trained architect based in Berlin, also practising as a doula in the field of pregnancy and birth. Working across sculpture, installation, and sound, she employs ceramics, salvaged materials, and archival fragments into provisional assemblages.
Guided by feminist materialist and posthumanist perspectives, Entwistle’s practice challenges the modernist ideals of mastery and monumentality that shaped her architectural training. Instead, she privileges improvisation, open form, and gesture. Foregrounding the vitality of matter and the agency of nonhuman collaborators, she tunes her attention to the reciprocal entanglement of human, material and spatial relations, where context and matter act as co-authors in the shaping the work.
Her practice often dialogues with the personal and material legacy of her grandfather, architect Clive Entwistle, whose unrealized projects and personal belongings form a living archive within her work. Drawing on this inherited matter and its biographical/ relational narratives, her works and installations evoke systems of imperfect mutuality where form and collapse coexist.
Recent solo exhibitions include No doubt your mother told you the ceiling caved in (Kunsthal44 Moen, 2025), What was I aiming at? In my next life to be a great singer, and the life after that to be a writer (Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin, 2024), and Death what? The sun’s corpse will roll on (Cascina I.D.E.A, Italy, 2023). Her work has been supported by the Fondation Le Corbusier, Graham Foundation Chicago, Arts Council England, and Stiftung Kunstfonds, among others. Publications include Junk. Own (DISTANZ, 2022) and Please send this book to my mother (Sternberg Press, 2015).