About

Originally from Australia, Sarah lives in the Western Isles of Scotland. 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.
Her paintings are in oil paint and hover between figurative and abstraction.

She studied painting at the University of Arts, London and is a graduate of Turps Banana Painting Correspondence course. Sarah is a recent recipient for the Society of Scottish Artists mentor/mentee yearly programme.  Sarah was awarded the Mall Galleries’ ING Discerning Eye Landscape Prize 2023.

Recent exhibition's include Art On A Post Card International Women’s Day 2024, Detail Art Gallery, Edinburgh, Irving Gallery, RSW Annual exhibition, Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London, Wells Contemporary, Royal Scottish Academy Annual. Previously Sarah has won the Jackson’s Painting Landscape Prize, was shortlisted for the Alpine Fellowship Art Prize and received the Hulabhaig Curator’s Purchase Award.

Exhibitions
2024        ‘Constellations’, Irving Gallery, Oxford
2024        ‘A Room of One’s Own’, Irving Gallery, Oxford
2024        Art on A Postcard, International Women’s Day, The Bomb Factory, London
2024        ‘From Sea to Sky’ , Detail Gallery, Edinburgh
2023        Winter exhibition, The Old Lock up Gallery, Derbyshire
2023        ‘Connect & Grow’, Society of Scottish Artists, Cass Art, Glasgow
2023        ING Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries London, Winner Landscape Prize
2023        Wells Art Contemporary Annual Exhibition, Wells, Somerset (Aug 04)
2023        ‘West’, Visual Arts Scotland, The Briggait, Glasgow
​2023        The Old Lock Up Gallery Open, Derbyshire
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:
2023        ING Discerning Eye Landscape Prize, Mall Galleries
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










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