Tanoa Sasraku

About

Tanoa Sasraku’s practice encompasses sculpture, drawing and filmmaking. Her work is rooted in the material and symbolic properties of land via landscapes, pigments, and minerals, and informed by a personal relationship to textiles and pattern making.

Tanoa Sasraku (b. 1995, Plymouth, UK) graduated from Goldsmiths (2018) and the Royal Academy Schools (2024). Sasraku is nominated for the 2026 Turner Prize. Recent solo exhibitions include, ‘Morale Patch’, ICA, London, UK (2026); ‘Man Engine’, Vardaxoglou, London (2023); ‘Tanoa Sasraku’, Vardaxoglou, London (2022); ‘Terratypes’, Spike Island, Bristol (2022); and ‘Liths’, Peer, London, UK (2023). 

Recent group exhibitions have taken place at Palais de Tokyo, Paris, FR (2025); Abbot Hall Museum, Kendal, UK (2025); Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter, UK (2025); Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK (2024); Vardaxoglou Gallery, London, UK (2024); Ben Hunter, London, UK (2024); Drawing Room, London (2023); Venice Architecture Biennale, Venice (2023) cur. Lesley Lokko; Newlyn Art Gallery & The Exchange, Newlyn (2023); Tate Liverpool (2022); Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry (2022); Goldsmiths CCA, London, UK (2022); Klosterruine, Berlin, (2020); John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, UK (2019); Tate St Ives, UK (2019). Sasraku’s moving image works have been screened at the BFI Southbank, as part of the 18th London Short Film Festival (2021); Selected X, VideoClub online and touring (2020); Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival, Berwick-upon-Tweed (2019). In 2021, Sasraku was awarded the Arts Foundation Futures Award for Visual Arts. In 2023 Sasraku completed a residency at Porthmeor Studios, St Ives, UK.

Tanoa Sasraku’s work is held in the Arts Council Collection, UK; The Government Art Collection, UK; and The Box, Plymouth, UK.

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Selected Works

  • Tanoa Sasraku
    Mascot, 2025
    Newsprint, foraged English and Ghanaian earth pigments, digital print, UV-print produced using a sunbed, tailor's chalk, fixative spray, thread, tap water from the Royal Academy, in custom OSB frame
    452 x 348 x 100 cm
    178 x 137 x 39 3/8 ins

  • Tanoa Sasraku
    Allomother, 2025
    Newsprint UV printed using a sun
    bed, binder clips, studio water, rust
    157 x 295 x 2 cm
    61 3/4 x 116 1/8 x 3/4 ins

  • Tanoa Sasraku
    Subdued Morale Patch [Prisoner of War], 2025
    Newsprint UV printed using a sun bed, binder clips, studio water, rust
    39.4 x 95.4 cm
    15 1/2 x 37 1/2 ins

  • Installation view, Tanoa Sasraku: Morale Patch, ICA, London

  • Tanoa Sasraku
    Trouser Front R, 2023
    newsprint, foraged Cornish and Ghanaian earth pigments, tailor’s chalk, fixative spray, thread, St Ives seawater
    132 x 117 x 4.5 cm
    52 x 46 x 1 3/4 ins

  • Tanoa Sasraku
    A Tower to Say Goodbye, 2024
    newsprint, foraged English and Ghanaian earth pigments, digital print, UV-print produced using a sunbed, tailor's chalk, fixative spray, thread, tap water from the Royal Academy, custom plinth
    65 x 288 x 392 cm
    25 5/8 x 113 3/8 x 154 3/8 ins

  • Tanoa Sasraku
    Trouser Back R, 2023
    newsprint, foraged Ghanaian earth pigment, digital pigment print, tailor’s chalk, fixative spray, thread, St Ives seawater
    134.5 x 65.5 x 4.5 cm
    53 x 25 3/4 x 1 3/4 ins

  • Tanoa Sasraku
    Pocket R, 2023
    newsprint, foraged Cornish and Ghanaian earth pigments, tailor’s chalk, fixative spray, thread, St Ives seawater
    57.5 x 57.5 x 4.5 cm
    22 5/8 x 22 5/8 x 1 3/4 ins

  • Tanoa Sasraku
    Jacket Back R, 2023
    newsprint, foraged Ghanaian earth pigment, digital pigment print, tailor’s chalk, fixative spray, thread, St Ives seawater
    111 x 97.5 x 4.5 cm
    43 3/4 x 38 3/8 x 1 3/4 ins

  • Tanoa Sasraku
    Jacket Front L, 2023
    newsprint, foraged Ghanaian earth pigment, digital pigment print, tailor’s chalk, fixative spray, thread, St Ives seawater
    108.5 x 61 x 4.5 cm
    42 3/4 x 24 x 1 3/4 ins

  • Tanoa Sasraku
    Vest Front R, 2023
    newsprint, tailor’s chalk, graphite, fixative spray, thread, St Ives seawater
    94.5 x 59 x 4.5 cm
    37 1/4 x 23 1/4 x 1 3/4 ins

  • Installation view, Tanoa Sasraku: Man Engine, 4 October – 4 November 2023, Vardaxoglou Gallery, London

  • Tanoa Sasraku
    Transformer (Terratype), 2021
    newsprint, thread, graphite, foraged Oronsay red ochre, foraged Sligichan yellow ochre, fixative spray, Sound of Raasay seawater
    42 x 63 cm
    16 1/2 x 24 3/4 ins

  • Tanoa Sasraku
    Yellow Gate (Terratype), 2021
    newsprint, thread, graphite, foraged Sligichan yellow ochre, fixative spray, Sligichan river water
    37.5 x 37.5 cm
    14 3/4 x 14 3/4 ins

  • Tanoa Sasraku
    Blue Gate (Terratype), 2022
    newsprint, thread, foraged Torbay red ochre, Ultramarine pigment, Antwerp blue pigment, fixative spray, Plymouth Sound seawater
    41 x 36 cm
    16 1/8 x 14 1/8 ins

  • Tanoa Sasraku
    Red Gate (Terratype), 2022
    newsprint, thread, foraged Torbay red ochre, foraged Sligichan yellow ochre, forage Braes purple pigment, Ultramarine pigment, Antwerp blue pigment, fixative spray, Plymouth Sound seawater
    41 x 36 cm
    16 1/8 x 14 1/8 ins

  • Installation view, 'Tanoa Sasraku', Vardaxoglou, London, 14 October– 3 December 2022

  • Tanoa Sasraku
    Mire Horse, 2022
    newsprint, thread, toner, foraged Bideford Black pigment, foraged Yarner Wood orange pigment, fixative spray, Dartmoor bog matter
    77.7 x 39.2 cm
    30 5/8 x 15 3/8 ins

  • Tanoa Sasraku
    Storr Terratype, 2021
    newsprint, thread, foraged Storr red ochre, graphite powder, fixative spray, Sound of Raasay seawater
    71 x 38.1 cm
    28 x 15 ins

  • Tanoa Sasraku
    Mire Horse, 2022
    newsprint, thread, toner, foraged Bideford Black pigment, foraged Yarner Wood orange pigment, fixative spray, Dartmoor bog matter
    40.2 x 29.2 cm
    15 7/8 x 11 1/2 ins

  • Tanoa Sasraku
    Red Wet-Cell, 2022
    patinated cast bronze, resin glue, foraged Torbay red sandstone
    13 x 7.5 x 1.5 cm
    5 1/8 x 3 x 5/8 ins
    Government Art Collection, UK

  • Tanoa Sasraku
    A Tower to Say Goodbye, 2021
    newsprint, soft pastel, fixative, polyester thread, linen thread, PVA glue
    401 x 260cm
    157 7/8 x 102 3/8 ins

  • Installation view, 'Terratypes', Spike Island, Bristol, 28 May–17 July 2022

  • Installation view, 'Terratypes', Spike Island, Bristol, 28 May–17 July 2022

  • Installation view, 'Tanoa Sasraku: Liths', PEER Gallery, London, 17 February – 20 May 2023

Vardaxoglou Exhibitions

  • Man Engine

    Tanoa Sasraku

    4 October – 4 November 2023
    Vardaxoglou, London

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  • Tanoa Sasraku

    14 October – 17 December 2022
    Vardaxoglou, London

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  • Mascot

    Tanoa Sasraku at Art Basel Paris

    24 – 26 October 2025
    Grand Palais, Paris, France

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Selected Institutional Exhibitions

  • Morale Patch

    Solo Exhibition

    7 October 2025 – 11 January 2026
    ICA, London, UK

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  • Terratypes

    Solo Exhibition

    28 May – 17 July 2022
    Spike Island, Bristol, UK

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  • Liths

    Solo Exhibition

    17 February - 20 May 2023
    PEER Gallery, London, UK

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Resources

  • Tanoa Sasraku interview in ArtReview

    10 October 2025

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  • Tanoa Sasraku interview in The Guardian

    30 September 2025

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  • The shows to see in London during Frieze Week

    Financial Times, 7 October 2025

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