Sarah Dutt

Sarah Dutt is a New Zealand artist of Māori and Fijian-Indian heritage. Her great-grandfather moved from India to Fiji in the late 1800s during the Girmit. Her grandmother was from Trinidad and emigrated to Fiji in 1906. Dutt's father moved to New Zealand in the 1960s.

Artwork "Alleluia" by Sarah Dutt and Metuanooroa Tapuni. The Square, Palmerston North. Dutt's mixed media art practice is informed by the visual cultures of her Māori and Indian heritage.

In 2022 Dutt, as part of The Kshetra Collective, curated an exhibition at the Auckland War Memorial Museum entitled A Place to Stand. The exhibition aligned with the collective's aims to display the diversity of the Indian diaspora in New Zealand. The exhibition included the painting Where I belong, Toku Tuurangawaewae, Swadesh Hai, Mera, which explores the artist's sense of cultural, physical and spiritual belonging.

In 2023 Dutt had work displayed with The Kshetra Collective in the exhibition, Invisible Narratives: Contemporary Indian Creatives from Aotearoa at the New Zealand Portrait Gallery Te Pūkenga Whakaata. Her painting All in a Day's Work (2023) makes reference to the history of indenture from India to Trinidad and Fiji. The exhibition also includes the painting Where I belong, Toku Tuurangawaewae, Swadesh Hai, Mera.