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.

Recent artistic showcases and publications include:
—'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', 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.