Sarah is passionate about art's ability to surprise, delight, challenge and move us.
She also believes in art's power to connect people and support wellbeing.
The desire to observe and define the benefits of the arts drives her work. In this capacity she has been a published arts researcher, evaluator and a curator, and has facilitated projects and programmes within a range of contexts including contemporary public art, community programmes and arts education. Sarah maintains her own artistic practice and continually brings her interest about the impact and benefits of experiencing art to everything she creates. Her practice is broad, including sculpture, painting, experimental book art and printmaking. Her ideas frequently investigate memories and meanings connected with places.
She also believes in art's power to connect people and support wellbeing.
The desire to observe and define the benefits of the arts drives her work. In this capacity she has been a published arts researcher, evaluator and a curator, and has facilitated projects and programmes within a range of contexts including contemporary public art, community programmes and arts education. Sarah maintains her own artistic practice and continually brings her interest about the impact and benefits of experiencing art to everything she creates. Her practice is broad, including sculpture, painting, experimental book art and printmaking. Her ideas frequently investigate memories and meanings connected with places.
Sarah's work falls into 3 main areas:
Research and Management: making arts funds and programmes work for audiences and participants, and sharing the learning
Workshops and kits: facilitating art, wellbeing and creative exploration
Art and curating: making, illustrating, doing and showing
Research and Management: making arts funds and programmes work for audiences and participants, and sharing the learning
Workshops and kits: facilitating art, wellbeing and creative exploration
Art and curating: making, illustrating, doing and showing
Across all of these strands she maintains a strong motivation to increase public participation in the arts and help create experiences that are unusual,
thought-provoking and memorable.
thought-provoking and memorable.
Sarah is also a mother to two beautiful creative whirlwinds who inspire and teach her in more ways than they'll ever know.
EDUCATION
MA Arts Management Policy : Curating
(Birkbeck, University of London)
(Birkbeck, University of London)
BA Fine Art Sculpture
(Wimbledon College of Art)
(Wimbledon College of Art)
TRAINING
Easy Read training (Easy Read UK)
Inclusion Labs (AGBIS)
Infographics (Fernando Gomez Baptista, National Geographic)
Safeguarding: Child protection in primary schools (NSPCC)
Safeguarding: The Governance of Safeguarding (TES)
Understanding Autism Level 2 (University of West London)
Evaluation for Arts, Culture and Heritage (Centre for Cultural Value and University of Leeds)
Inclusion Labs (AGBIS)
Infographics (Fernando Gomez Baptista, National Geographic)
Safeguarding: Child protection in primary schools (NSPCC)
Safeguarding: The Governance of Safeguarding (TES)
Understanding Autism Level 2 (University of West London)
Evaluation for Arts, Culture and Heritage (Centre for Cultural Value and University of Leeds)
Image credits, clockwise from top right:
Top: Shermaine Slocombe, 2020
Middle left: Sarah B Davies, 2020
Middle middle: Veronika Ward, 2024
Middle right: Roger Brown, 2018
Middle left: Sarah B Davies, 2020
Middle middle: Veronika Ward, 2024
Middle right: Roger Brown, 2018