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 and is a recent recipient for the Society of Scottish Artists mentor/mentee yearly programme.
Recent exhibition's include the John Ruskin Art prize, 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 was awarded the Mall Galleries’ ING Discerning Eye Landscape Prize 2023, Jackson’s Painting Landscape Prize, was shortlisted for the Alpine Fellowship Art Prize and received the Hulabhaig Curator’s Purchase Award.
Exhibitions
2025 ‘The Land’, Society of Scottish Artists, The Dick Institute, Kilmarnock
2025 John Ruskin Art Prize, ‘From the Eye to the Hand’, Trinity Buoy Wharf, London
2025 'Small Paintings Exhibition', Morningside Gallery, Edinburgh
2024 Winter exhibition, Detail Gallery, Edinburgh
2024 ‘What in the World’, A New Primer, St Margaret’s House, Edinburgh
2024 ‘Summer Salon’, Detail Gallery, Edinburgh
2024 ‘Festival Exhibition’, Graystone Gallery, Edinburgh
2024 ‘Treasures’, Society of Scottish Artists, Gairloch Museum
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:
2025 The John Ruskin Art Prize (shortlist), Trinity Buoy Wharf, London
2023 ING Discerning Eye Landscape Prize, Winner, Mall Galleries, London
2022 Hulabhaig Uig Open Curator’s Purchase Award
2021 Jacksons Art Prize - Winner, Landscape Seascape City category
Collections:
2024 Hulabhaig Island Contemporary Art Collection, Isle of Lewis
2023 Tia Collection, https://tiacollection.com/
2013 Landmark
Press:
2024 SeaVoice Volume 5, 'Sense’
https://www.seavoice.online/post/baselines-painting-our-new-landscapes
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