Jac Saorsa

Born in the UK, I have lived and worked teaching drawing in higher education in The US, Cyprus, Costa Rica and Portugal. I am now based in Cardiff, UK where I run The Broadway Drawing School -
The product and result of an eclectic mix of emotion and intellect, my work is primarily figurative but does not depend on emblematic or allegoric representation. The intangible figure emerges from within tangible form through a creative process that is both constructive and deconstructive in praxis.

2004 PhD Fine Art: University of Loughborough, School of Fine Art 1999 MPhil Philosophical Aesthetics: Glasgow University, Scotland 1998-2000 MFA studies: (drawing and sculpture) New York Academy of Art1996 BA Hons Philosophy/Social Sciences: Open University UK

Exhibitions:

November 2012, Speaking the Unspeakable, Drawing Women’s Cancer, The Senedd, National
Assembly, Cardiff
October 2012 TB(i) The Kyffin Williams drawing Prize exhibition, Oriel Kyffin Williams,
Langefni, Anglesey
January 2012 – Jan 2014: Drawing Out Deleuze, Online Residency TRACEY Drawing Research
Website: http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/sota/tracey/space/projects/saorsa/js1.html
April – May 2012: Drawing TB: Online Residency, Centre for Recent Drawing, London:
http://www.c4rd.org.uk/C4RD/Online_Residency.html
November 2003: Drawing on Uncertainty, Air Gallery, London, UK
October 2002: Studies for Drawing on Uncertainty Universidad Veritas, Costa Rica
July 2000: A Leap of Faith: Municipal Gallery, Limassol, Cyprus
October 1998: Earthworks: Newbery gallery, Scotland, Glasgow, UK:
November 1997: Summer in France: Otago Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland, UK:
November 1994: Life and Death: Livingstons Gallery, Nottingham UK:
October 2008: Self Portrait: Powerhouse Gallery, Nicosia Cyprus: Self-Portraits (group)
2003: Kingston University, ‘Drawing - the Process’ UK touring exhibition: Hand made artist
book (edition 4 of 4) based on the ‘Mapping the Mark’ project. (group)
1999-2000: Graduate School of Figurat...