"REFLECT I" Print

Completed a Bachelor of Arts (Honors) in Fine Art at the National College of Art and Design, Dublin, in 2012. During this time Manson took part in workshops in the Netherlands, with the European League of the Institutes of the Arts and was selected to represent Ireland in the Prix Europa, Languages through Lenses video competition on multilingualism. Her short film was awarded 4th place out of fifteen shortlisted entries selected from 27 European Union Member States with her entry 'Choose Wisely'. Manson's work is in collections such as; AXA Insurance and The Royal College of Surgeons and is housed in numerous private collections also. Sarah Eva's works were selected for the 121st RHA Annual Exhibition in 2011. In November of the same year, she was invited to exhibit in The Cockleshell Gallery, Waterford. There she showed an installation of 52 palimpsest etchings along with a short video piece. Her work was also selected for the travelling Irish Wave exhibition curated by Fionn Gunn, this exhibition travelled to Beijing and Shanghai in 2012. Manson spent 6years working in the Copper House Gallery, Dublin, where she specialised in exhibition design, planning and production, advanced transparency and negative scanning along with large format scanning as an archival and conservation resource. Manson is also the curator of Ballyrogan Expression; an artist's collective and travelling group show.