Sarah-Alice Miles is a New Zealand printmaker working primarily in linocut and woodcut.

Her practice explores landscape, belonging, and migration through slow, hand-carved processes grounded in the Canterbury plains.

“My work is shaped by slow, hand-made processes and by repeated attention to place. I return to the same forms — landscape, flora, birds, and animals — allowing meaning to accumulate gradually rather than resolve. These images often sit at the edge of narrative, where looking becomes a way of staying with uncertainty.

Much of my practice is concerned with ideas of home, belonging, and distance: how place is learned over time, how familiarity is built through repetition, and how identity can be shaped by landscapes that are both lived in and observed.

This site brings together ongoing bodies of work, writing, and reflections made alongside the process of printmaking.

The work begins again in looking.”

 

For inquiries, you can reach me at sarah.miles68@live.com

Process excerpts on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/reflectedground/