Artist Bio

Sarah is a landscape artist, painting her local Sussex scenery on canvasses made from recycled domestic fabric, hence exploring the juxtaposition of the domestic & 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 number of schools eventually to become Head of Art at Eastbourne College. In 2011, she was invited to exhibit a retrospective of her work at Bedford School which was met with public acclaim. Another journey – that of motherhood and starting a family in rural Sussex has informed the content of Sarah’s current paintings.

Gerald Moore Gallery

Gerald Moore Gallery is delighted to present A slash of Blue- our annual open call exhibition, this year with an emphasis on painting. The title for this exhibition comes from the poem ‘A slash of Blue-‘ by the American poet Emily Dickinson:

 A slash of Blue –
A sweep of Gray –
Some scarlet patches on the way,
Compose an Evening Sky –
A little purple – slipped between –
Some Ruby Trousers hurried on …

The call was open to all artists living in London and the Southeast. Artists were asked to submit an image of a pre-existing painting that worked in relation to the poem, this was open to wide interpretation. The scope of the entries was vast and varied.

Curriculum Vitae

Education

2002-2003     PGCE in Art Education - Goldsmiths, University of London

1997-2000     Fine Art Degree - Bath Spa University College

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

Teaching Positions and Relevant Experience

2022- 2023 Bohunt Horsham - Art Teacher

2019-2022     Photographer for Christ’s Hospital School

2018-2020     Skylarking Art – Children’s illustrations and Picture Hunts.

2017-2019     Art workshops in local primary schools

2008-2012     Eastbourne College - Head of Art

2004-2008     Axton Chase - Teacher of Art and Head of Year

2003-2004     Kingsdale School - Teacher of Art

Solo Exhibition

2020   Print show: Southwater

2011 Sarah Whiteley: A Retrospective, Bedford School

Group Exhibitions

2023 Gerald Moore Gallery - A Slash of Blue

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

Press

2021   Inspirational Magazine – Portfolio feature.

2020   Out of the Woods – Publication by Fronteer Gallery

2020   The Blue Magazine- 2019/2020 - Photography

2020   Interview with Simon Carter on Resonance FM

2019 Southwater News – Feature on Skylarking Art

2006 ‘Alles fur die Show’. Review, Hamburg Szene

2005 ‘Funny Peculiar’, Jessica Lack, iD Magazine (July)

2005 ‘British Video Artists at Fahrenheit and Screenland’, Amelia Ishmael, Kansas Review, Sept 05, pp. 60–6