HTSUOGHT by Sarah Forrest
HTSUOGHT is a short film made in collaboration with my nephew Ruairidh that asks, ‘how can we be sure that we’re seeing the same things as each other?’ Drawing from Ruairidh’s experience of ADHD, the film brings together individual and collaborative footage, montaged head sequences and interviews with family and friends to consider ideas of visibility and invisibility with regards to our mental health.
Sarah Forrest
HTSUOGHT
Sarah Forrest (2025, Scotland) 14m
A collaboration with Sarah’s nephew Ruaridh who has ADHD, combining animation, video footage and spoken word recordings to explore the idea that there is no ‘correct’ way for the brain to work.
Commissioned for the Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival 2024, exploring the theme In/Visible.
About the Artist
Sarah Forrest is an artist and educator based in Glasgow who works across film, installation, text and sound. Recent projects include: OMG A Show :), Gwenan International, Glasgow (2025); TV Dinners, Deveron Projects, Huntly (2023); Who has seen the wind? Chelsea Art Space, London (2022); Footnotes with Becky Šik, Radiophrenia (2021). Solo shows include: The Unit, Glasgow International (2021); The Unreliable Narrator, Hospitalfield, Arbroath (2019); Sarah Forrest: April, LUX, London (2018); Again, it objects, Kunstraum Dusseldorf, Germany (2016); I Left it on Page 32, Supplement, London (2014); Two Solo Shows: Sarah Forrest and Mounira Al Sohl, CCA, Glasgow (2013). She was recipient of the 2017/18 Margaret Tait Award. Sarah also has an extensive collaborative practice that includes In the Shadow of the Hand (with artist Virginia Hutchison, 2012 – present) and an ongoing collaborative moving image project with artist and filmmaker Becky Šik.
In/Visible Commissions
What does it mean to be ‘visible’ or ‘invisible’ when we think about our mental health?
We commissioned six artists – Deborah Shaw, Fibi Cowley, Meray Diner, Rebecca Livesey-Wright & Indra Wilson, Ritu Arya, and Sarah Forrest – to create new work exploring the theme of In/Visible at the Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival 2024.
