About
Originally from Australia, Sarah lives and works as an artist within the Western Isles of Scotland. She studied painting at the University of Arts, London (BFA) and completed the 2021 Turps Banana Correspondence course. Sarah is currently a recipient for the Society of Scottish Artists Mentor/Mentee 2021/22 programme.
Sarah is a landscape painter interested in the significant impact of human activity upon the planet’s ecosystems, geology and climate, and more specifically how this relates to the rural environment.
Issues such as climate change, the coastal and marine environment, agriculture, isolation and migration underpin her work, whilst considering our transitory existence in relation to the geological age of the Earth.
Exhibitions
2023 Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour 142nd Annual Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
2022 Spring Cheltenham Small Works Winter Show, Cheltenham
2022 Art on A Post Card Winter Auction, Bomb Factory, London
2022 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London
2022 ‘Reverb’, Visual Arts Scotland Annual Open, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
2021 Hulabhaig UIg Open, Isle of Lewis
2021 ‘The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over the Lazy Dog’, TurpsCC21, Cohort Art
2021 ‘Incandescent’, Irving Contemporary, Oxford
2021 'Message to the Earth', John Muir Open, North Light Arts, Dunbar Town House Gallery
2021 'Our Changing World', group exhibition, D31 Gallery, Doncaster
2021 The Alpine Fellowship Painting Prize (shortlist)
2021 Royal Scottish Academy 195th Annual Exhibition, Edinburgh
2021 Jackson's Painting Prize (Winner Landscape/Seascape/Cityscape category)
2020 ING Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London
2020 ‘Flow’, Visual Arts Scotland (VAS)
2020 ‘SSA 30x30 Online Edition', Society of Scottish Artists (SSA)
2020 ‘Tides Changing//Changing Tides’, SSA Viewing Rooms
2020 Royal Society of Marine Artists Annual Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London
2020 Wells Art Contemporary Annual Exhibition, Wells, Somerset
2020 ‘On The Table’, Marram Arts, @marramarts
2020 Jackson’s Painting Prize exhibition, (Jacksonsart.com long list)
2020 Royal Scottish Academy 194th Annual Exhibition, Edinburgh
2020 Affordable Art Fair, Battersea, London
2019 ‘A Time and Place’, Amp Gallery, London
2019 Westmorland Landscape Prize, group exhibition, Rheged Gallery, Cumbria
2019 ‘Over Seas’, SkyeMakers Gallery, Isle of Skye
2019 ‘Home’, group exhibition, CamCRAG, Michaelhouse Centre, Cambridge
2018 Aros Centre, group exhibition, Portree, Isle of Skye
2018 An Crubh, group exhibition, Sleat, Isle of Skye
2018 UHI (University of Highlands and Islands) group exhibition, Portree, Isle of Skye
2016 Battersea Affordable Art Fair, Artichoke Print Workshop, London
2014 FBA Futures, group exhibition, Mall Galleries, London
2013 Battersea Affordable Art Fair, Artichoke Print Workshop, London
2013 Clyde & Co. Art award exhibition, The St.Botolph Building, London
2013 Wimbledon Degree Show (BA (Hons) Fine Art: Painting, London
2013 Capsticks Winter group exhibition, Wimbledon, London
2013 Capsticks Summer group exhibition, Wimbledon, London
2012 ‘No Place in Particular’, Le Garage Gallery, South London
2011 ‘Bittersweet’, group exhibition, Real World Gallery, E1, London
1997 ‘Red and Blue in Space’, exhibition, Blue Gallery, Sydney, Australia
1996 Byron Bay Art Festival, Group exhibition, Byron Bay, Australia
Prizes:
2022 Hulabhaig Uig Open Curator’s Purchase Award
2021 Jacksons Art Prize - Winner Landscape Seascape City category
Collections:
2013 Landmark
Press:
2021 Jackson’s Art Prize Blog, interview ‘Shifting Perspectives’
https://www.jacksonsart.com/blog/2021/09/22/sarah-bold-shifting-perspectives/
2014 Traction Magazine & Postcard Wall: Interview, @postcardwall