Dutch-born Sarah Van Gameren is a connoisseur of accidental aesthetics. She graduated from the Design Academy, Eindhove, (dubbed the ‘School of Cool’by the Times magazine) and then moved to London to study design at the Royal College of Art, where she became Master of Art in 2007.
One of her first projects for the RCA, which was produced in collaboration with Rowan Mersh, was called ‘Chain Reaction’ and comprised 100,000 matchsticks burned one by one in a room from noon till midnight, creating a trail of suddenly wilted stems and a quiet fizzle of fire. The result was the repetitive mantra of ignition and finally a steady calm and the fading smell of sulphur…
