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 mycelial network, connecting LGBTQIA+ community groups across London, through fungus-meets-human storying. Sara works with non-profits and DIY groups including Queer Britain, Switchboard, Tonic Housing, ELOP, and Take Up Space.

Recent artistic showcases include: 'Process-ional: March-with the Saprofites' as part of the Desire Lines—Uprooting CSM PhD Symposium, 2026; 'Beyond My Ken: Gifts for Fungi Companions' for the CSM PhD Play Dead Symposium, 2025; 'In Bed With Pleurotus', a fungi takeover during the Take Up Space queer community exhibition at the Lethaby Window Gallery, 2024. Sara was also part of the CSM PhD 'Snapshots: Work-In-Process' exhibition 2023 and '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, Feminist Internet community, and UAL Research Society. Sara is also co-leader of the UAL More-than-human Post Grad Interest Group and an Organiser for the 2025 and 2026 CSM PhD Symposiums.

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