Sarah Dwyer: ‘You have to keep moving and keep changing to stay relevant’

Marc O’Sullivan Vallig meets the Cork artist to chat about her new exhibition at Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre

Sarah Dwyer. Picture: Alex Sarginson

Penti Menti, Sarah Dwyer’s new exhibition at Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre, is a homecoming of sorts. Dwyer grew up in Cork, but moved to the UK with her family when she was 14, and is now based in London.

“My father was a builder,” she says. “After the crash of 1989, he went to England to get work. He commuted for a year or so, and then we all moved over. When my parents retired, they moved back to Inniscarra. My father’s passed on now, but my mother still lives there, so I come back often.”