Sarah Howell

Sydney-born artist and textile designer Sarah Howell (b. 1976) studied a Bachelor of Fine Arts at UNSW's College of Fine Arts and has trained at Central St Martins College of Art & Design, London.
She is a master of mixed media and one of the most in-demand illustrators in Europe. Her layered, computer-manipulated images are as sensual as they are subversive, with a "grunge meets graphic" element and a powerful surreal aesthetic.
As such, Sarah's images do not adhere to "regulations": she is a serial breaker of laws of nature, where animals (equines, especially) frolic and frot in technicolour skies. Ink-splatters breed like black algae; two blood-red skulls are joined, playing-card style, with virtual Araldite. These otherworlds are dotted with op-art motifs. Female nudes receive vivid cuts and colours.

Art publisher and author Martin Dawber wrote of Sarah in Pixel Surgeons: Extreme Manipulation of the Figure in Photography: "Sarah's images succeed as puzzling visual anagrams that freely relish the current creative media platform open to artists ... a non-conformist approach to conventional glamour is treated subversively like the DIY persuasion inherent in punk."

1998 - 1999 Central Saint Martins College Diploma in Photoshop

1993 - 1999 University of NSW College of Fine Arts Bachelor of Fine Arts (studio)

1992 - 1993 Julian Ashton Art School (life drawing)