Sarah Chalkie Cloonan

Sarah Chalkie Cloonan makes, researching how art and its processes might inspire and uplift while promoting learning and well-being. She documents her research in her writing and exhibits her makings as artworks or assemblages. Each piece created is a talisman, a visual metaphor that Chalkie describes as a “Momento Vivre”; curious reminders that ask us to look and wonder about living.

"Looking around my domestic realm, I see many curious things that impart moments of musing and wonder. Curiosity about these everyday objects, lemons, dogs, teapots, trees, and daughters, where they rest, their narratives and the questions that emerge from their juxtaposition drive my practice".

Chalkie developed a love of drawing, painting and printmaking at the Byam Shaw School of Art and Decorative Arts at the City and Guilds of London Art School. While under the tutelage of Flavia Irwin R.A., she was inspired by the works from the Omega Workshops and the Artists of the Bloomsbury group. This led her to form her current praxis rooted in the domestic sphere, blurring the boundaries between fine art and the everyday.
Recently, Chalkie completed an MFA in Painting at Camberwell UAL and an MA in Arts & Learning from Goldsmiths. She also holds a distinction for her Diploma in Portraiture awarded by the Royal Society of Portraits Painters and a Merit for her Graduate Diploma in Fine Art & Design from the Royal College of Art.

2023/24
Regeneration @ Hansard studios W14.
Ego Dialogue @ Greatorex 2023.
Empress Studios open house 2023. London SW6. Undercurrents.Adelaide Studios. AOH. Hove Arts Trail 2023 Shadows we Cast. regroup Collective Show. Koppel Station.
2022
regroup. regroup Collective Show. Curator and exhibitor. Espacio Gallery. All-the-frequent-troubles-of-our-days. regroup Collective Show. Four Corners Gallery. Can You Hear Me? Goldsmiths MA Arts & Learning Final Show.
Intimacy. regroup Collective Show. Fitzrovia Gallery.
Between Memory & Experience. Goldsmiths Art & Learning MA Group Show.
2021
regroup Advance. regroup Collective Show. No Format Gallery.
Camberwell MFA Final Show.
Camberwell MFA. Interim Show. Copeland Gallery.
2020
Discerning Eye. Mall Galleries.
Launch on Line Collaborative Publication. RCA.
2019.
HNC Final Show. RBKC College Gallery. HNC Interim Show. RBKC College Gallery
Paintings, Prints & Drawings: landscapes, nudes, still life and portraits. Exhibited: The Original Picture Shop, London; The Flower Gallery, London; Anna Mei Chadwick, London; 'Art at Work' Art of Business Expo, London; Royal Academy Summer Exhibition; Project Art, London; The Decorative Arts Exhibition, Smith Gallery, London; Heatherleys 150th Exhibition, ...