Sara Vanore Rewkiewicz

Biography

Sara Vanore Rewkiewicz is a practice-led PhD student at Central Saint Martins, working closely with the university's unique bio arts laboratory called the Grow Lab and photographic 3D Capture Studio. Sara's research considers what non-normative narrative forms and alternative knowledges may emerge from unpredictable and seemingly unintelligible fungus-meets-human encounters.

Sara's artistic practice focuses on transspecies storying, using hybrid bio-digital methods such as working with personal objects; lab-notes-as-auto/biographical fragments; staging archival fungal forays, as well as photography, photogrammetry, 3D scanning, digital collaging, augmented reality, and electrical signalling to decentre and destabilise the dominant human.

Sara's collective practice is creating a LGBTQIA+ mycelial network across London, connecting community groups through fungus-meets-human storying. Sara works with non-profits and DIY collectives including Queer Britain, Switchboard, Tonic Housing, elop (formerly East London Out Project), and Take Up Space.

Artistic showcases and publications include:
—'In Bed with Pleurotus (Part II)', Being [More Than] Human exhibition, Lethaby Gallery, November 2026, as part of the annual UK Being Human Festival of humanities research.
—'Pink Panic Poster Child', Poster as Catalyst exhibition, UAL Doctoral School, 2026.
—'Process-ional: March-with the Saprofites', Desire Lines—Uprooting, CSM PhD Symposium, 2026.
—'Beyond My Ken: Gifts for Fungi Companions', Play Dead, CSM PhD Symposium, 2025.
—Small Worlds: Figments of More-than-human Ethics zine, 2025.
—Take Up Space collective zine, 2025.
—'In Bed With Pleurotus (Part I)', a fungi takeover, part of the Take Up Space exhibition, Lethaby Window Gallery, 2024.
—'Networking Dead Ideas', Snapshots: Work-In-Process PhD exhibition, CSM, 2023.
—'Death of the Holy Basil' and 'I am Bird', part of Transreading Interspecies Empathy & Innovative Poetics showcase in association with artist Camilla Nelson and The Poetry School, 2022.

Sara is a member of the UAL Living Systems Lab Research Group, Take Up Space queer collective, and Feminist Internet community. Sara is also co-leader of the UAL More-than-human Post Grad Interest Group, social media officer of the UAL Research Society, and a co-organiser for the 2025 and 2026 CSM PhD Symposiums.

Sara's research supervision team is: Heather Barnett (DoS), Andrea Zimmerman, and Caterina Albano.