Sarah is a landscape painter interested in the significant impact of human activity upon the planet’s ecosystems, geology and climate, and more specifically how this relates to the rural environment.

Issues such as climate change, the coastal and marine environment, agriculture, isolation and migration underpin her work, whilst considering our transitory existence in relation to the geological age of the Earth.

Her work hovers between figurative and abstraction.

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Sarah Bold  

Originally from Australia, Sarah lives and works as an artist in the Isle of Skye, Scotland.                                               

sarahabold@yahoo.co.uk

www.sarahbold.com

@sarahabold

Education:

2022/23           SSA Mentoring Programme (Mentee)

2021                Turps Banana Correspondence Course

2013                University of Arts, London, BA (Hons) Painting

Exhibitions:

2025 ‘The Land’, SSA/ The Dick Institute, Kilmarnock

2025 John Ruskin Art Prize, ‘From the Eye to the Hand’, Trinity Buoy Wharf, London

2025 Small Paintings Exhibition, Morningside Gallery, Edinburgh

2024 Winter exhibition, Detail Gallery, Edinburgh

2024 ‘What in the World’, A New Primer, St Margaret’s House, Edinburgh

2024 ‘Summer Salon’, Detail Gallery, Edinburgh

2024 ‘Festival Exhibition’, Graystone Gallery, Edinburgh

2024 ‘Treasures’, Society of Scottish Artists, Gairloch Museum

2024 ‘Constellations’, Irving Gallery, Oxford

2024 ‘A Room of One’s Own’, Irving Gallery, Oxford

2024 Art on A Postcard, International Women’s Day, The Bomb Factory, London

2024 From Sea to Sky, Detail Art Gallery, Edinburgh

2023 ING Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London, Landscape Prize

2023 Wells Art Contemporary, Wells, Somerset

2023    The Old Lock Up Gallery Open, Derbyshire

2023    West, Visual Arts Scotland, The Briggait, Glasgow

2023  The Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour (RSW) 142nd Annual Exhibition, Royal Scottish        Academy, Edinburgh

2022  Art on a Postcard, The Bomb Factory, London

2022  Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London

2022 ‘Reverb’, Visual Arts Scotland Annual Open, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh 

2021 Hulabhaig UIg Open, Isle of Lewis, Curator's Purchase Award

2021 ‘The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over the Lazy Dog’, TurpsCC21, Cohort Art

2021 ‘Incandescent’, Irving Contemporary, Oxford

2021 ‘Message to the Earth’, John Muir Open, Dundee

2021 ‘Our Changing World’, D31 Gallery, Doncaster

2021 The Alpine Fellowship Visual Art Prize (shortlist)

2021   Jackson’s Art Prize - Winner of the Landscape, Seascape, City category

2021   Royal Scottish Academy 195th Annual Exhibition, Edinburgh

2020  Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London 

2020  ‘Flow’, Visual Arts Scotland (VAS)

2020   ‘SSA 30x30 Online Edition, Society of Scottish Artists (SSA)

2020   ‘Tides Changing//Changing Tides’, SSA Viewing Rooms

2020   Royal Society of Marine Artists Annual Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London

2020 Wells Art Contemporary Annual Exhibition, Wells, Somerset

2020  'On The Table’, Marram Arts, @marramarts

2020   Jackson’s Painting Prize  - Winner Landscape/Seascape/City category

2020   Royal Scottish Academy 194th Annual Exhibition,       Edinburgh

2020   Affordable Art Fair, Battersea, London

2019   ‘A Time and Place’, Amp Gallery, London

2019    Westmorland Landscape Prize, group exhibition, Rheged Gallery, Cumbria

2019   ‘Over Seas’, SkyeMakers Gallery, Isle of Skye

2019   ‘Home’, group exhibition, CamCRAG, Michaelhouse Centre, Cambridge

2018    Aros Centre, group exhibition, Portree, Isle of Skye

2018    An Crubh, group exhibition, Sleat, Isle of Skye

2018    UHI (University of Highlands and Islands) group exhibition, Portree, Isle of Skye

2016    Battersea Affordable Art Fair, Artichoke Print Workshop, London

2014    FBA Futures, group exhibition, Mall Galleries, London

2013    Battersea Affordable Art Fair, Artichoke Print Workshop, London

2013    Clyde & Co. Art award exhibition, The St.Botolph Building, London
2013      Wimbledon Degree Show (BA (Hons) Fine Art: Painting, London

2013    Capsticks Winter group exhibition, Wimbledon, London
2013    Capsticks Summer group exhibition, Wimbledon, London
2012    ‘No Place in Particular’, Le Garage Gallery, South London
2011     ‘Bittersweet’, group exhibition, Real World Gallery, E1, London
1997    ‘Red and Blue in Space’, exhibition, Blue Gallery, Sydney, Australia
1996    Byron Bay Art Festival, Group exhibition, Byron Bay, Australia

Prizes:

2025      John Ruskin Art Prize (shortlist)

2023     ING Discerning Eye Landscape Prize, Mall Galleries

2022     Hulabhaig Uig Open Curator’s Purchase Award

2021   Jacksons Art Prize - Winner Landscape Prize               

Collections:

2023        The Tia Collection, paintings (Big Little Scotland series)

2013        Landmark, painting acquisition (‘Over and Out’)

Press:

2024       SeaVoice Volume 5,’Sense’

https://www.seavoice.online/post/baselines-painting-our-new-landscapes

2021 Jackson’s Art Prize Blog, interview ‘Shifting Perspectives’

https://www.jacksonsart.com/blog/2021/09/22/sarah-bold-shifting-perspectives/

2014        Traction Magazine & Postcard Wall: Interview, @postcardwall