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Sal paints with film and describes sound through visual signals. Narratives are from unexpected points of view, they unnerve, question, enrapture, putting the audience into visual music. Installations are psycho-geographic, site-responsive, cinematic and human centred. Combining a range of media including video, slide projection, live feed and photocopiers, she creates abstract narratives utilising altered scale, suffused layering of light, reframes, rhythm and story-telling constructing other-worlds, that explore ways of challenging sensory, societal and intellectual perceptions.

Her work ranges from the design and production of multi-screen / multi-roomed distinct analogue and digital installations in monochrome and saturated colour to art books and 2D visual works – integrating original and found film footage, text, archive, architecture, photomontage and collage. Give the audience part of the story – then it is up to them how they wish to complete the picture.

sal pittman work

films (a selection)

Most of 2020- 22 was spent filming and editing. I filmed hours of footage in our empty city during lockdown. Neutrinos recorded many songs in their empty city during lockdown, we released them as an album and a series of videos below:

[many more here. ]

Shake the Egg short Film

Reason Film

Blocked by Stars FIlm

Artist Curation

A love Letter to the Building

A farewell to the iconic London College of Fashion buildings as they relocate to a purpose built space in East Bank Stratford., this was a site responsive show over 5 sites in the summer of 2023. The exhibition was a celebration of the psycho-geography of the space, the unsung heroes of art education, the old school buildings, the ghosts that will remain there and captured memory. Below is a film of the most westerly of the campuses; Lime Grove, just off Goldhawk Road.

More imagery coming soon.

REVIEWS FOR LOVE LETTERS

“Astounded by the detail and passion of Sal Pittman and her five site, multi-space, cross platform love letters to the buildings that have housed the London College of Fashion. We Hope to see this as a book, such a unique and important cultural story of London.”

Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard, Artist/Filmmakers (20,000 Days on Earth)

“Sal Pittman has conjured from the archives a remarkably thoughtful, thorough and imaginative tribute to the London College of Fashion’s component schools and the people who have studied there, spanning an incredible hundred years. From the seamstresses who grew up in the East End of sweatshops and Saucy Jack to the swinging New Breed who put Oxford Street centre of the fashion map, the voices of those who shaped the looks and lives of successive generations can be heard once more. A fabulous psycho-geographic tapestry, invisibly stitched together with incredible attention to detail – and labelled with love.

– Cathi Unsworth, Writer and Journalist (Season of the Witch. Defying Gravity) and LCF alumna 1986-88.

Concrete Dreams

This is one of the films made for the Concrete Dreams exhibition,The inaugural exhibition post-refurb of Queen Elizabeth Hall, Purcell Rooms and Hayward Gallery. We were asked to design the show. More info in the menu. The footage originates from London Metropolitan archives, Southbank Centre architectural archive and Arup and Partners structural engineering archive for the construction of the buildings.