The Guardian: ‘Portals into the past and future’: the artist soaking her works in Britain’s bogs
For the 26-year-old artist Tanoa Sasraku, coming of age in Plymouth had its challenges. As a biracial, gay teenager, few people looked like her, and her desire for romantic love went unanswered. Instead, she found kinship not with a person, but a wilderness. “I constantly fantasised that, if I just got out of Plymouth, I would find this intangible thing,” she recalls. “I didn’t know what it would be, but accessing rural landscapes helped me understand what it might feel like…
Tanoa Sasraku in The Guardian, interviewed by Skye Sherwin
6 June 2022
