Sarah Whiteley

Sarah is a landscape artist, painting her local Sussex scenery on canvasses made from recycled domestic fabric, hence exploring the juxtaposition of the domestic and natural world.

Since completing a Fine Art degree at Bath in 2000, Sarah has developed an interdisciplinary practice exploring the intersections between Painting, Photography and Film, often drawing upon personal experience and narratives.

After graduating Sarah was a freelance editorial assistant photographer. Having traveled through South America and Asia, she then drew upon this experience to create a body of film and photographic work documenting these continents. She produced films exploring ideas around going on journeys and the sublime. This work was exhibited all around the world in a retrospective of British video art entitled All for Show (2005-2007), an internationally touring exhibition of short films made by British artists. Jessica Lack’s review in ID magazine in 2005 suggested ‘an awkward and macabre sense of humor […] These idiosyncratic films succeed in finding surreal quirks in the banalities of everyday life’.

Around the same time, Sarah began another journey – as an arts educator. Having trained at Goldsmiths College, she taught in a numb...

1997-2000 Fine Art Degree - Bath

1996-1997 Foundation in Art and Design – Maidstone, Kent Institute of Art and Design

2020 Print show: Southwater
2020 Creates Gallery – Online Exhibition
2019 Windlesham Fair – Skylarking Art - Sussex
2019 Castlewood Fair – Skylarking Art - Sussex
2004-7 All for Show, British Video Art Retrospective
2006 FAHRENHEIT GALLERY, USA
2006 HET WILDE WETEN, Rotterdam, Netherlands
2006 NEXUS, Philadelphia, USA
2006 KX, Hamburg, Germany
2006 GALERIE VERTICALE, Montreal, Canada
2006 STUDIO 1.1, LONDON 2006
2006 CAFÉ GALLERY PROJECTS LONDON
2005 EDGEZONES, Miami, Florida, USA,
2005 SOUTHERN EXPOSURE, San Francisco, USA
2005 PHYSICS ROOM, Christchurch, New Zealand
2005 LUMP GALLERY, North Carolina, USA
2005 SOAP FACTORY, Minneapolis, USA
2005 MIGHTY SCREENLAND THEATRE, Kansas City, USA
2003 Group Exhibition - Studio Voltaire - Don’t You Forget About Me
2003 Group Exhibition Splendid, Covent Garden London
2002 Group Exhibition –Beautiful Projects, Ashley Gardens, London
2000 Two-person Exhibition Temperamental – Trinity Arts Centre
2000 Group Exhibition - Diorama Arts Centre – Beautiful