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Sal Pittman is a Southeast London-based artist, designer, and curator whose expanded media practice explores the fragile intersections of identity, fragmented memory, and non-verbal storytelling.

She describes her process as painting with film: working within idiosyncratic fictional or found sets to craft abstract narratives that reframe perspectives and open other-worlds. Engaging with historical film, archives, and the psycho-geography of place, she casts fresh light on familiar spaces.

Her installations are site-responsive and cinematic, yet intimate and human-centred. Using digital and slide projection alongside analogue techniques, she layers scale, rhythm, and light to challenge sensory, societal, and intellectual perceptions. This hybrid approach brings together original footage, found and archival film, text, assemblage, and collage.

Her work spans multi-screen and multi-room installations in both monochrome and saturated colour, as well as art books and 2D visual works. She also works in production design and art direction for music, film, and performance

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.