With my back to the world

       Ceramic sculpture, install view, 15 x 35 x 35 cm

        525 €

 Sarah Strachan 

Cambridge,  UK

 

 Education

  MA Fine Art, Cambridge School of Art, 2022.

BA (Hons) Fine Art, Cambridge School of Art, 2020.

CIM, Chartered Marketer, Chartered Institute of Marketing, 2005.

CIM Postgraduate Diploma in Marketing, Cambridge Marketing College, 1999.

CIM Advanced Certificate in Marketing, Cambridge Marketing College, 1997.

BA (Hons) Geography, University of Sheffield, 1995.

 

 

 

  Selected as one of the top 25 emerging artists in the UK

at the British Ceramic Biennial, Stoke-on-Trent (2021), Sarah is an award winning artist in ceramics (ArtNumber23 Open Contest, Greece (2020)), sculpture (Art Resilience, France (2022)), installation (Aesthetica Art Prize 2023 and 2024) and sustainability (Sustainability Art Prize, UK 2021 and 2022).

 

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2023  Resonance Vessels, Dubrek Gallery, Derby, UK.

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024  Summer Open, Babylon Arts, Ely, UK.

           English Riveria Summer Open Exhibition, Artizan Gallery, Torbay, UK.

           Open Studios, Wysing Arts, Bourn, UK.

           Creative Reactions, Art@ARB, Cambridge, UK.

          Spring Exhibition, AKA Gallery, Cambridge, UK.

          Macfarlanes Art Prize, London, UK.

          Violent Bodies, Ugly Duck, London, UK.

          Aesthetica Art Prize, York Art Gallery, York, UK.

          An Artist’s Refuge, Parndon Mill, Harlow, UK.

          Women’s Open Exhibition, Artizan Gallery, Torbay, UK.

2023  Winter Open, AKA Gallery, Cambridge, UK.

           English Riviera Winter Open, Artizan Gallery, Torbay, UK.

           Small, but perfect, Babylon Arts, Ely, UK.

           Women’s Exhibition, Artizan Gallery, Torbay, UK.

           Letchworth Open, Broadway Gallery, Letchworth, UK.

           The Anxiety of Interdisciplinarity 2.0, Art@ARB, University of Cambridge, UK.

           The Summer Tour, AKA Gallery, Cambridge, UK.

           English Riviera Summer Open, Artizan Gallery, Torbay, UK.

           Charlotte Fraser Ceramic & Glass Prize, Holt Festival, UK.

           The Director’s Cut, Woolwich Contemporary Printmaking Fair [online].

           Open Studios, Cambridge Community Arts, Guildhall, Cambridge, UK.

          Derby Print Open 2023, Green door Printmaking Studio, Derby, UK.

          The 197 th RSA Annual Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, UK.

           S/S 23 Exhibit, Espresso Library, Cambridge, UK.

           Aesthetica Art Prize, York Gallery, UK.

           Spring Forward Group Show, AKA Gallery, Cambridge, UK.

           Awe & Wonder, Oxo Gallery, London, UK.

           Climate Matters, Bridge Gallery, Tynemouth, UK.

           The Spaces In-between, Haus-a-Rest {online].

            March Exhibition, Buy the Kilo Art Gallery, Tynemouth, UK.

2022  English Riviera Winter Open, Artizan Gallery, Torquay, UK.

           Boundary Objects, Curwen Print Study Centre, Great Thurlow, UK.

           TERRA, Espacio Gallery, London, UK.

           The Anxiety of Interdisciplinarity, Island Venue, Bristol, UK.

           Letchworth Open 2022, Broadway Gallery, Letchworth, UK.

           It’s not about the gallery, MA Degree Show, Ruskin Gallery, Cambridge, UK.

           The Land is Changing, Buy the Kilo Art Gallery, Tynemouth, UK.

           Summer Open 2022, Babylon Gallery, Ely, UK.

           8th International Art Resilience, Musée de Peinture de Saint Frajou, France [online].

           Charlotte Fraser Ceramic & Glass Prize 2022, Holt Festival, Norfolk, UK.

           Of Line and Form, Artizan Gallery 2022, Torquay, UK.

           English Riviera Summer Open, Artizan Gallery, Torquay, UK. Immersions: Into the River    

            Cam, Robinson College, Cambridge, UK.

            Fresh Air Sculpture 2022, Quenington, UK.

            Derby Print Open 2022, Green Door Printmaking Studio, Derby, UK.

             This is also not a shoe shop, Lord Ashcroft Building, Anglia Ruskin University,  

              Cambridge, UK.

              Sustainability Art Prize 2022, Ruskin Gallery, Cambridge, UK.

              Aberdeen Artists Society Exhibition 2022, Aberdeen Art Gallery, UK.

2021  Work in progress: MA Visual Research Practice, Ruskin Gallery, Cambridge, UK.

37 th Annual Open, Southwark Park Galleries, London, UK.

English Riviera Winter Open, Artizan Gallery, Torquay, UK.

Fresh 2021, British Ceramics Biennial, Stoke-on-Trent, UK.

Collective Rebound, Motion Sickness Project Space, Cambridge, UK.

Sound Walk September 2021 (as Mud Collective) [online].

Global Conversations, Centre for Arts, Social Science and Humanities (CRASSH), Cambridge

University, UK (as Mud Collective) [online].

7 th Art Resilience, Musée de Peinture de Saint-Frajou, France [online]

Summer Open, Babylon Gallery, Ely, UK.

Distanced Domestic, MKII (The Old Dairy Hall), London, UK.

Our Changing World, D31 Gallery, Doncaster, UK.

Holt Festival, Lees Gallery, Holt, UK.

English Riviera Summer Open, Artizan Gallery, Torquay, UK.

Come Outside, r_is_n.projects [online].

Reconnecting, Bermondsey Project Space, London, UK.

London Art Biennale, London, UK.

Voices of Earth, Art from Heart, London, UK [online].

V2, The Flux Review, London, UK [online].

2020

Open Art Contest, Athens, Greece.

Sustainability Art Prize, Ruskin Gallery, Cambridge, UK [online].

IEA Open, Holt Gallery, UK.

TOD Gallery, Kent, UK.

Here & There, Window Room, Philadelphia, USA & Parkhaus15, Orlando, USA (as Mud

Collective) [online].

Queens’ Arts Festival – Art trail, Cambridge, UK.

Proximity by proxy, Ruskin Gallery, Cambridge, UK.

FAÇADE, The Holy Art Gallery, London, UK.

NEXT (Au Suivant), Cultivate Gallery, UK [online].

Artizan Small Works, Artizan Gallery, Torquay, UK.

Royal Society of British Artists Annual exhibition 2021, Mall Galleries, London, UK.

VCZ Online Gallery [online].

ONE, Round Lemon, Zest Hall, UK [online].

ROAR, Art at the ARB, Cambridge, UK [online].

Spring Open 2021, The Absent Gallery [online].

The Sky has no surface [online].

Persona, The Holy Art Gallery, London, UK [online].

Do it Your Way, online group show [online].

BLACK + WHITE IV, Envision Arts [online].

Queens’ Arts Festival, Queens’ College, Cambridge, UK [online].

Current, Itiswhatitis Duo/Cambridge Arts Network [online].

New Tenants, Around the House [online].

42,602,038 + Stay Connected virtual exhibition [online].

99 UK Artists Contest, 99 World Artists [online].

This is not a balcony (show), Ruskin Gallery, Cambridge, UK [online].

Re:Cultivate, Cultivate group show via The Organ [online].

Interim Arts, Exhibition [online].

Teesside Print Prize 2020, Middleborough, UK.

TSDAP, The Socially Distant Art Project [online].

2019

This Changes Everything, Motion Sickness, Cambridge, UK.

Royal Scottish Academy Annual Open, Edinburgh, UK.

Return to Nature, Legacy Art Gallery, Todmorden, UK.

Thoughtful Planet 3, Thought Foundation, Gateshead, UK.

Art at the ARB Cambridge Summer Open, Cambridge, UK.

Making Marks – Art on the wall – Summer Show, Richmond, UK.

Sustainability Art Prize, Ruskin Gallery, Cambridge, UK.

Deuxieme, Ruskin Gallery Corridor, Cambridge, UK.

Connextions, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK.

Merge, Ruskin Gallery, Cambridge, UK.

Vision, Ruskin Gallery, Cambridge, UK.

2018  Mill Road Winter Fair Art Salon, Gallery 9, Cambridge, UK.

Sense of Place, White Room Gallery @ Yellow Arch, Sheffield, UK.

50 under 50, Unit 6 Studio & Gallery, Richmond, UK.

The Archive & the Contested Landscape, Cambridge Festival of Ideas, Anglia Ruskin

University, Cambridge, UK.

Open gardens & sculpture trail, Saltaire Festival, UK.

TreeFEST, EACH, Ipswich, UK.

POST 24, Cambridge Artworks, Cambridge, UK.

Sustainability Art Prize, Cambridge, UK.

 

AWARDS AND HONORS

2024

International Art Gemini Prize – shortlisted.

Macfarlanes Art Prize – shortlisted.

Aesthetica Art Prize – longlisted.

2023

Visual Art Open – longlisted.

Charlotte Fraser Ceramic & Glass Prize – shortlisted.

The Director’s Cut, Woolwich Contemporary Printmaking Fair.

Aesthetica Art Prize – longlisted.

Chaiya Art Awards – shortlisted.

2022

Art from Heart – Artist of the month (September).

Sculpture Award – 8 th Art Resilience.

Charlotte Fraser Ceramic & Glass Prize – shortlisted.

Visual Art Open – longlisted.

Curwen Print Student Bursary.

Dubrek Print Prize – Derby Open Print.

Sustainability Art Prize – First Prize.

Signature Art Prize – shortlisted.

Tebbs International Art Prize Award 2022 – shortlisted.

Artizan Gallery exhibition bursary.

 

2021

Tebbs Gallery Artist of the Week.

Visual Art Open – shortlisted.

FRESH 2021, British Ceramics Biennial.

Sir John Hurst Art Prize – shortlisted.

Sustainability Art Prize – First Prize.

The Social Art Award – shortlisted.

RBA Annual Open – shortlisted.

Round Lemon Award – Finalist.

Sustainability Art Prize – First Prize.

2020

ArtNumber23 Open Contest, Athens – First Prize.

SWA 159 th Annual Open Exhibition – shortlisted.

Visual Art Open – highly commended.

Sustainability First Art Prize – shortlisted.

Dr Supanee Gazeley Fine Art Prize – highly commended.

Sustainability Art Prize – highly commended.

2019

Artrooms Awards – Sculpture – shortlisted.

Institute of East Anglian Artists Open – shortlisted (not hung).

Royal Scottish Academy – Annual Open – shortlisted.

Royal West of England Academy Annual Open – shortlisted (not hung).

RA Summer Exhibition – shortlisted (not hung).

Visual Art Open – shortlisted.

Sustainability Art Prize – shortlisted.

2018

RA Summer Exhibition – shortlisted (not hung).

Visual Art Open – shortlisted.

Sustainability Art Prize – shortlisted.

 

RESIDENCIES/COLLABORATIONS

Pint of Science: Collaboration with Dr Alison Ming, University of Cambridge, 2024

Resonance Vessels, Dubrek Studios, Derby, 2023

Conversations with clay, Cambridge Community Arts, ongoing

BxNU Curating: the social, the politics seminar series, 2022-23

The Anxiety of Interdisciplinarity, ongoing

Artist in residence, Haslingfield Primary School, Cambridge, June 2022

Artist in residence, World Soil Survey Archive and Catalogue, Cranfield University, 2022

BxNU Prefigurative Reading Group #4: Dawn by Octavia Butler, January-March 2022

Visions of the Future, 1800-1914, Anglia Ruskin University, October 2021

Tackling Air Pollution in Schools (TAPAS) Network Collaboration 2022-24

New Platform.art, May 2021-January 2022

The Mycological Twist/SPUR community collaborative project, March-April 2021

Around the House Instagram takeover, March 2021

Sustainability First Instagram takeover, February 2021

Redux interdisciplinary research group, ongoing

Willesden Gallery Instagram Takeover [online –Instagram]

SPUR virtual residency, July to December 2020

The 7 th Generation, June 2020 to December 2021

Mud Collective, ongoing

Itiswhatitis Duo, ongoing

PUBLICATIONS

Case Study: Collaborative pedagogic research as bridge between PGT and PGR

programmes, Innovative Practice in Higher Education, July 2024

60 Artists of the Art Resilience Movement – Book by Ksenia Milicevic, January 2024

Artist interview – Sarah Strachan – Insight of an Eco-Artist, July 2023

Artist interview – Sarah Strachan - Art Etcetera, May 2023

Creative Activities Inspired by Matthew Darbyshire’s Hercules Meets Galatea 2021.

Reflexivity, methodologies and collaboration in art practice: Plough Through and The Air We

Breathe, Innovative Practice in Higher Education, October 2021.

Currents - BAIT 11 Zine, 2021

Artists responding to Zine, Issue 5, 2021

Body Gathering Zine, Make it Public, RCA/Design Museum, 2020

Ways of Thinking, Ruskin Press, 2020

Cambridge Arts Network Conference 2020 – article for conference programme

ROAR, Art.Earth, 2019

Can Art Change Minds About Climate Change? Storylab symposium review, 2019.

Making Creativity Pay, Storylab workshop review, 2019

The Archive and Contested Landscape exhibition review, 2018

 

Website : https://www.sarah-strachan.co.uk/