Sarah Plummer is a collaborative printer, maker, and writer, lately of Australia and more recently of California. She was raised on the traditional lands of the Bidjigal and Dharawal people in Sydney and moved to the USA to pursue a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Printmaking) at Rhode Island School of Design before attending Tamarind Institute’s Professional Printer Training Program for collaborative lithography. She has worked on fine-art prints at Wingate Studio, Gemini G.E.L., and for the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s 150th anniversary. Within the last year, she has set up her own studio, Speck Editions, on unceded Tongva/Gabrielino land—in Los Angeles.

Sarah is captivated by the alchemic expanse of lithography and loves things that seem impossible. While she finds the opportunity to bring well-honored, innovative approaches to artists and their work as one of the greatest pleasures, her own work—print and otherwise—leads an investigation into land, memory, material, grief, love, and freedom.

Image description: A portrait of Sarah, a white woman with long brown hair. She stands in front of a white wall, wears a long-sleeved tie-dye shirt that reads, “Tamarind Litho Crew” and is holding a leather inking roller in her right hand. 

Image description: Sarah, a white woman stands in front of a lithographic printing press, with her long, brown hair tied-back. Sarah wears a red face mask, a black apron, and fingerless gloves, holding up a proof of Thomas Demand’s Wall, 2019.

Please reach out to Sarah if you are interested in purchasing work, or for inquiries regarding potential collaborations, contract jobs, or printmaking workshops. Sarah also provides technical consultation, archiving services and minor print restoration.

email: speckeditions@gmail.com

Video by Ryan John Allison; courtesy Tamarind Institute, 2020.

Panelist, “Working Together: Perspectives on Collaboration, Diversity, and Womxn in Print, Museum of Contemporary Art”, San Diego, 2021.