Sasha Monty's pracrice explores and celebrates the inherently elastic nature of identity. Its endless potential is researched through the creation of still and moving images, and their intertwining. Performance is a catalyst and acts as a ritual with which to document the deeply personal processes of transformation, liberation, and healing connected with the gender non-conforming journey. Their practice at the formal level is primarily concerned with the materiality of the photograph as object, often using collage, painting, drawing, and/or burning, to render the often editioned medium of photography, unique.
Since 2025, they have been using make-up, as well as textiles and embroidery in their practice, to adorn the photographic paper. This is incorporated as a continued enquiry into the materiality of the photograph as object, in an attempt to further break apart the mechanisms at play with conventional image-making.
Sasha Monty holds an MA Artists' Film and Moving Image from Goldsmiths, University of London; an MA History of Art, University of Oxford; and a BA Social & Political Sciences, University of Durham. They trained professionally in Ballet and Contemporary Dance at Rambert, under the Thérèse Cantine Scholarship.
Their work has been exhibited internationally in galleries, art fairs and film screenings since 2019.