Artist | Filmmaker |
‘Sal’s art lurks somewhere in the shadows; rich with tactile, off-kilter, unapologetic personality. She is able to stride from the page to the projector and from installation to art direction with bold vision and a deftness of touch’
Sal Pittman is a Southeast London-based artist, designer, and curator whose expanded media practice explores the fragile intersections of identity, fragmented memory, and non-verbal storytelling.
She describes her process as painting with film: working within idiosyncratic fictional or found sets to craft abstract narratives that reframe perspectives and open other-worlds. Engaging with historical film, archives, and the psycho-geography of place, she casts fresh light on familiar spaces.
Her installations are site-responsive and cinematic, yet intimate and human-centred. Using digital and slide projection alongside analogue techniques, she layers scale, rhythm, and light to challenge sensory, societal, and intellectual perceptions. This hybrid approach brings together original footage, found and archival film, text, assemblage, and collage.
Her work spans multi-screen and multi-room installations in both monochrome and saturated colour, as well as art books and 2D visual works. She also works in production design and art direction for music, film, and performance.
For the past 15 years she has worked alongside The Neutrinos. Together they make work in collaboration with buildings and founded the company KlangHaus.
All images © salpittman unless otherwise stated.
C.V.
Artist/filmmaker, curator and educator working across a variety of disciplines. My work ranges from bespoke multi-media cinematic projects to art direction, production and costume design with my companies- SalPittmanStudio and KlangHaus.
I am also a design lecturer in research and concept development at both postgraduate and undergraduate level.
Artist + Co-director. KlangHaus
Co-founder, Artist and Filmmaker at KlangHaus – a collaboration in sound, art, and building. KlangHaus is a critically acclaimed and award-winning, installation + theatre umbrella project. The company operates using a hybrid of live music, art and architecture: The integration of evaporating cinematic narratives, song and sound design, analogue and digital light, multi channel film, exist within site responsive installations and promenade performance. We have evolved our work over the last decade into a deeply somatic experience for the audience.
Installations/Shows. KlangHaus
Last Haus on Earth | Klang Headquarters. Norwich
Ghost Writ – Installation | National Centre for Writing. Norwich
InHaus – HearthandHome | Klang Headquarters. Norwich
InHaus + Darkroom | Summerhall. Edinburgh Fringe
InHaus | Klang headquarters. Norwich
LightHaus | Love Light festival. Norwich
800 Breaths |Southbank Centre. London
Four Storeys | St. Georges Works. Norwich
Alight Here | Queen St Bus Depot. Colchester
OnAir | Southbank Centre. London
LowerGround | Somerset House. London
KlangHaus at the Small Animal Hospital | Summerhall. Edinburgh Fringe
Multi-media. (a selection)
Artist/curator
Museum of Youth Culture x SalPittmanStudio soft launch at MoYC new space – 2024
Threshold – Object Lessons exhibition at Museum of Youth Culture – 2023
I am also now a board member of The Museum of Youth Culture, appointed post-exhibition in 2023
‘Love Letter to a Building’ 5 x site show at London College of Fashion – 2023
Concrete Dreams at Queen Elizabeth Hall – 2018
Production Design/Art Direction
Phantoscopic (Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard) – ongoing
Phantoscopic/Metal
4AD/Beggars Group/Decca/Mute Records – ongoing
Clients include Nick Cave, Scott Walker, Daughter, Can, Barbican Centre, Dazed Digital.
Powis Square Pictures. The World We Knew.
Art Direction/Film maker
Me Without You – Artist /Film-maker on a new co – commission. Premiered at the Aldeburgh Festival 2024 and Spitalfields Festival 2024
The Voice Project – Ongoing. art direction/film-maker
The Mayor’s London Borough of Culture. Film-maker. Lewisham. 2022
University College London, Museums. Live Streams, Multi-media Installations and public events 2020/21
DESIGN LECTURER
I have worked across various design schools for over 15 years in London including
London College of Fashion.
Kingston school of Art.
Central St Martins.
Ravensbourne.
Istanbul Moda Academy.
I teach research and design methods , concept development and 3D development. across a variety of disciplines at under-graduate and post-graduate level.
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