Art on a Postcard International Women’s Day Auction - Curated by Jo McLaughlin

About 

Originally from Australia, Sarah lives in the Western Isles of Scotland. Sarah is a landscape painter who’s work is primarily focused on the significant impact of human activity upon the natural world, particularly in rural and coastal environments. Her paintings are in oil paint and the work hovers between figuration and abstraction. She studied painting at the University of Arts, London and is a graduate of Turps Banana Painting Correspondence course. Sarah was a 2023 recipient for the Society of Scottish Artists mentor/mentee yearly programme. Recent exhibition's include ING Discerning Eye, RSW Annual exhibition, Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London, Wells Contemporary. Sarah was awarded the ING Discerning Eye Landscape prize, the Jackson’s Painting Prize Landscape prize, was shortlisted for the Alpine Fellowship Art Prize and received the Hulabhaig Curator’s Purchase Award. Exhibitions include Incandescent, Irving Contemporary, ING Discerning Eye, Flow (VAS), Royal Scottish Academy Annual, Well’s Contemporary Annual, RSMA Mall Galleries.  

Education 

BA Painting, University of Arts London 

Select Exhibitions/Awards 

ING Discerning Eye Landscape Prize, Mall Galleries, London 2023 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London 2022 Hulabhaig Uig Open Curator’s Purchase Award, Isle of Uig 2022 Jackson's Landscape Prize 2021 The Alpine Fellowship Visual Art Prize (shortlist) 2021 

Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork  

These works are within my Big Little Scotland series. Big Little Scotland is about interpretation of scale and individual experience or connection to the landscape. It interests me that when we do seek ‘wild’ places there is a preconception that they must be big/majestic/isolated/remote/inaccessible. What I find is that it isn’t necessarily the size or scale of the landscape, (for what is ‘Big’ or ‘Little’ is entirely an individual experience), but the true majesty comes from the connection or feeling that a particular place evokes within. Why do some places in particular make you feel there is no-where else as special? One person’s mountain can be another’s meadow.  
 

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