Bio / CV

Bio / CV

Forms of Circulation is a contemporary artist and filmmaking collaboration led by Sarah Perks and Paul Stewart. Working through film, installation and performance, they follow how images, objects and stories travel between people, places and environments, and what gets altered along the way. Football fans and seals, school children and wildflowers, karaoke and tarot, their collaborative methods are as varied as the communities they work with. Their films have been selected for BFI London Film Festival, Busan New Wave Film Festival, Aesthetica Short Film Festival, Braziers International Film Festival and Slow Film Festival; invited residencies include 0-eA, Yokosuka/Tokyo (Japan), MIT (Cambridge, USA) and Suzhou (China). Their work is in the collections of MIMA (Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art) and Cartwright Hall Art Gallery (Bradford), and they were selected artists for Brent Biennial 2025 (curated by Annie Jael Kwan). They work collaboratively, most frequently with 16mm cinematographer Christo Wallers.

Forms of Circulation is a contemporary artist and filmmaking collaboration led by Sarah Perks and Paul Stewart. Working through film, installation and performance, they follow how images, objects and stories travel between people, places and environments, and what gets altered along the way. Football fans and seals, school children and wildflowers, karaoke and tarot, their collaborative methods are as varied as the communities they work with. Their films have been selected for BFI London Film Festival, Busan New Wave Film Festival, Aesthetica Short Film Festival, Braziers International Film Festival and Slow Film Festival; invited residencies include 0-eA, Yokosuka/Tokyo (Japan), MIT (Cambridge, USA) and Suzhou (China). Their work is in the collections of MIMA (Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art) and Cartwright Hall Art Gallery (Bradford), and they were selected artists for Brent Biennial 2025 (curated by Annie Jael Kwan). They work collaboratively, most frequently with 16mm cinematographer Christo Wallers.

Films

Films

Forms of Circulation #5 (Deadwater), 16mm transferred to digital, 2027
Forms of Circulation #4 (Coatham Marsh), 16mm transferred to digital, 2026
Forms of Circulation #3 (Middlesbrough Football Club), 16mm transferred to digital, 2026
Forms of Circulation #2 (Tilery Park), 16mm transferred to digital, 2025
Until the End of the World #2 (Cartwright Hall Art Gallery, Bradford), digital, 2025
Partially Incorrect Answers (Yokosuka), digital, 2024
Forms of Circulation #1 (National Horizons Centre), 16mm transferred to digital, 2023
Until the End of the World #1 (MIMA / Middlesbrough Collection), digital, 2023

Exhibitions

Exhibitions

Desire Lines: Art, Place & Possibilities, MIMA, Middlesbrough, 28 Nov 2025 – 12 Apr 2026
Soft Structures, MIMA, Middlesbrough, 19 September 2023 – 31 March 2024 2025:

Brent Biennial: Bones, Stones and Calling the Four Elements, Brent, London, 22 June – 24 October 2025
Soft Structures, MIMA, Middlesbrough, 19 September 2023 – 31 March 2024
Salty Measures, IMT Gallery, Bethnal Green, London, 2023

To find out more about Sarah or Paul, visit their individual websites.