Passage
For this series, the artist employs string, fibres, and wire as agents of tension and constraint, knotting them around various clay combinations to create indentations and markings produced through friction and containment. Each clay painting is wrapped and bound like a parcel: suggesting protection and care, yet simultaneously signals restriction and the assertion of control. By dissecting the clay, the artist imitates the ways land is inscribed with meaning. Land Parcelsreflects on the human impulse to transform the land through acts of surveying, marking, dividing, and claiming. These gestures create boundaries resulting in territory control, which stand for larger systems of ownership, memory, and rupture that shape landscapes.
Land Parcels, #1 2026
Sarah Delaney
Air-dry Clay, Merino Wool
10” x 8”
Land Parcels, #2 2026
Sarah Delaney
Air-dry Clay, Leather
10” x 8”
Land Parcels, #3 2026
Sarah Delaney
Air-dry Clay, Jute Twine
10” x 8”
Land Parcels, #4, 2026
Sarah Delaney
Air-dry Clay, Wire
10” x 8”
Land Parcels, #5 2026
Sarah Delaney
Air-dry Clay, Artificial Hula Skirt Grass
10” x 8”
Land Parcels, #6 2026
Sarah Delaney
Air-dry Clay, Cotton String
10” x 8”
Land Parcels, #6 2026
Sarah Delaney
Air-dry Clay, Cotton String
10” x 8”
Land Parcels, #8 2026
Sarah Delaney
Air-dry Clay, Alpaca Wool
10” x 8”
Land Parcels, #9 2026
Sarah Delaney
Air-dry Clay, Batting Blend
10” x 8”
Land Parcels, #10 2026
Sarah Delaney
Air-dry Clay, Jute Twine
10” x 8”
Land Parcels, #11
2026
Sarah Delaney
Air-dry Clay, Flax Fibre
Land Parcels, #12 2026
Sarah Delaney
Air-dry Clay, Plastic
10” x 8”
Land Parcels, #13
2026
Sarah Delaney
Air-dry Clay, Flax Fibre
10” x 8”
Land Parcels, #14 2026
Sarah Delaney
Air-dry Clay, Cotton String
10” x 8”
Land Parcels, #15 2026
Sarah Delaney
Air-dry Clay, Icelandic Wool
10” x 8”
Land Parcels, #16 2026
Sarah Delaney
Air-dry Clay, Jute Twine
10” x 8”
Land Parcels, #17 2026
Sarah Delaney
Air-dry Clay, Leather
10” x 8”
Land Parcels, #18 2026
Sarah Delaney
Air-dry Clay, Bamboo / Viscose Fibre
10” x 8”