Sara Varady Studios
Sára Várady (b. 1992, Budapest, Hungary) began her art studies in 2012, receiving the Art of Evolution Foundation by Montázs Arts Studio. She subsequently completed a year-long mentor program in Painting and Graphic Design at Óbuda Art School and an additional year-long painting course focused on Fine Arts. She earned her first degree, a BSc in Industrial Design, from the Budapest University of Technology and Economics. With direct entry into the second year, she pursued a Fine Art BA at the University of Dundee, Scotland. During her studies, she participated in the ERASMUS program at Universitat Politécnica de Valéncia, Spain, where she specialized in anatomical drawing and oil painting. Varady also received a full scholarship for the Summer School at the East China University of Science and Technology in Shanghai, China.
In 2018, she graduated with a Fine Art Honors degree from the University of Dundee and subsequently moved to China to teach art at Olive Tree International Academy while traveling across Asia. In 2020, she relocated to London to pursue an MA in Print at the Royal College of Art, from which she graduated in June 2022. Currently, she resides and works in London.
Varady's work has been exhibited in Hungary, Scotland, the Netherlands, Wales, and China.
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LIVE PERFORMANCE AT SOUTHWARK PARK GALLERIES
Exhibited at Southwark Park Galleries as part of the Royal College of Art’s MA Print course (11–14 March 2022), this installation by Sara Varady combined handmade lightboxes with a live performance exploring the evolution of consciousness. The three etchings—Bigger than Me, Bigger than You, and Bigger than All of Us—were displayed in handmade lightboxes arranged in a triangular formation, their ascending height reflecting the conceptual rise from individual awareness to collective unity.
During the performance, Varady practiced Yin yoga while wearing a hand-painted bodysuit and VR headset. The virtual environment—a reimagined 3D scan of her own room created in collaboration with artist Charlie Pannell—was livestreamed to an old TV screen. By seeing what Varady saw, the audience was invited to inhabit her perspective; as she elevated her consciousness, they too were drawn into her experience of transformation.
The performance concluded with an interactive gesture, as Varady invited viewers to take a note containing a personal reflection or quote, extending the work’s message of shared energy, awareness, and unity.