Sara Dudman

I am an artist with an affinity for wilderness, a concern for environment and a need for community. I exhibit extensively, lead collaborative, participatory and development projects and was elected an academician at the Royal West of England Academy of Art in 2016.

A persistent curiosity about physical and conceptual relationships with the environment drives my work. Exploring the physical world is central to my practice, examining notions of ‘permanence and impermanence’ and ‘substance and essence’, including human and animal relationships with the environment.
I absorb my subject through direct experiences and researched information, often using low-tech video footage as the source and starting point for reprocessing the subject through drawing and painting.

From 2013-2016 I jointly undertook a collaborative project called Flock Together, working with fellow academician Debbie Locke RWA to research and create a body of works which interrogate and reinterpret sheep farming activity in the Blackdown Hills AONB in the South West of England.

In contrast to the over-saturated, heightened, screen-based reality through which we increasingly experience our environment, my paintings and drawings reclaim the world as a personal...

BA (Hons) Fine Art: Painting, Loughborough College of Art and Design
MA (distinction) Design and Manufacture, De Montfort University, Leicester

Solo, 2-person and artist-led group curated exhibitions

'Winter Exhibition', Studio Eleven, Kingston-Upon-Hull, 2020-2021
‘Lizard Point Residency Exhibition’ (touring), London + Cornwall 2019
‘The Arborealists and Guests’, Fyne Court, National Trust, Somerset 2019
‘Sara Dudman RWA Artist - Educator’, The Brewhouse Theatre + Arts Centre, Somerset 2019
‘Turbulence’, Staithes Studios Gallery, Yorkshire 2018
‘Northern Territories’, The Moors Centre, Yorkshire 2018
Unfamiliar Territories, Contains Art, Somerset, 2017
‘Momentum and Walking’, Stroud Museum in the Park, Gloucestershire 2016
‘New Territories’, The Brewhouse Theatre and Arts Centre, Taunton 2016


Selected Exhibitions

RWA Open, Bristol 2011, 1013, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020
BEEP2018 Contemporary Painting Exhibition, Swansea, Wales 2018
‘Make Your Mark’, Messums, Wiltshire 2018
‘Perfectly Small’, exhibition by Joanna Bryant Projects, The Foundry Gallery, London 2018
‘The Observatory: Perspectives on Landscape, Society and Spirit’, The University of Exeter, 2017
Drawn 2013, 2015 + 2017, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
'A Fragile Beauty: Art on the Blackdown Hills', The Museum of Somerset, 2017
The Porthminster Gallery, St Ives, Cornwall,...