Our People
Sarah King
Senior Lecturer & Course Leader BA (Hons) Fine Art
<p dir="ltr">Sarah King is a practicing artist, educator and researcher. She employs a range of artistic research methods and material processes in her practice including digital recording and projection; object gathering and making; stitching; drawing; and embodied actions. </p>
<p dir="ltr">Her work and research are focussed around notions of memory; exploring the uncanny, and the abject in relation to objects, materiality, memory, and trace. Recent soft sculptural works and sound drawings are deeply concerned with the passing of time, forgetfulness, the absent subject and mending the impossible in an attempt to confront and reconcile the strangeness of loss. She exhibits nationally and internationally and has work held in private collections in the UK and US.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Sarah is Subject Leader for the Fine Art degree programme at Arts University Plymouth, she teaches across all years and leads level 6 studio, professional practice and contextual modules. </p>
<p>Sarah is passionate about the dialogue of practice and the richness of sharing, debating and questioning to bring dynamic and live making and thinking to the studio. She is currently External Examiner for University of Gloucestershire.</p>
<p>Drawing in an expanded field, scores and movement, memory as monument, abject materiality, and practice led research.</p>
<p><strong>Exhibitions</strong></p>
<p>2019 Hidden- Fringe Arts Bath Festival</p>
<p>2019 Tiny Sketchbook Project, London, Paris, New York</p>
<p>2018 RCA Secret, Royal College of Art, London </p>
<p>2018 Royal West Academy, Bristol</p>
<p>2018 Institut Fur Alles Mogliche, Berlin</p>
<p>2017 A drawing show, PS1, Plymouth College of Art</p>
<p>2017 May Day, May Day, Test Space, Spike Island, Bristol</p>
<p>2012 Specular, KARST, Plymouth</p>
<p>2012 ‘my sister life’ Artspace 101, Plymouth University</p>
<p>2012 TRACE, Motorcade/Flashparade, Bristol</p>
<p>2012 Surface II Crypt Gallery, London</p>
<p>2011 Surface Crypt Gallery, London</p>
<p>2011 ‘Satori’ Performance drawing with Impermanence, Dance Theatre, SPACE, Dartington </p>
<p>2011 ‘Satori’ Performance drawing with Impermanence Dance Theatre, Goldener Saalkun Shaus Tacheles, Berlin</p>
<p>2010 The Moment of Privacy has passed, Usher Gallery, Lincoln</p>
<p>2010 Domesticated (touring show) Postmodern Gallery, Swindon</p>
<p>2009 Domesticated (touring show) Walcot Chapel, Bath</p>
<p><strong>Residencies</strong></p>
<p>2012 Residency at The Hypatia Trust, Jamieson Library, Penzance.</p>
<p>2011 Residency in collaboration with Impermanence Dance Theatre, SPACE, Dartington</p>
<p>2011 Residency with The Hypatia Trust, Jamieson Library, Penzance</p>