New Masters artist: Sarah Harvey

Sarah Harvey joins our Masters section

It is with great pleasure we welcome Sarah Harvey to the NewBloodArt Masters section. By elegantly combining the subjects of human form and water, Harvey’s vast, saturated paintings study how a body can be a ground for both insecurity and fantasy. She studied at both Chelsea School of Art, London, and Newcastle University, graduating in 2004. While at Newscastle University, Harvey won the 2003 Bartlett Travel Scholarship and with it, embarked on a trip to Italy that would inspire much of her now established practice. In 2010 she took part in a residency at the Signy and Olaf Willums Art Foundation in Pourrieres, France. Participating in a vast number of exhibitions over the past twenty years, Harvey’s first two solo shows were in 2006, at Sesame Gallery, London and Paul Gullotti Gallery, Perth, Australia. Since then she has had solo exhibitions across the United Kingdom, Australia and twice with Collectors Contemporary in Singapore, in the years 2011 and 2014.
A versatile talent, Harvey’s pieces exist in a number of public collections and publications both in the United Kingdom and abroad. Her name carries an impressive list of awards. As well as being shortlisted for many others, in 2007 she came second in the Insight Investment Newcomers Award, Royal Academy of Arts, London and was the first place, Grand Prix Winner of the Art Periscope Award. In 2011 she won the LICC London International Creative Competition and the year before received an honourable mention.

Promise by Sarah Harvey