Sarah Bold
Sarah Bold
Sarah's work has always intrigued me, with her inclusion of waste and discarded plastic, and unnatural objects into otherwise rugged landscapes.
In 2021 her work 'A Road Less Travelled' was selected for the Hulabhaig Curator purchase prize, its suggestion that our islands are not quite as perfect as we hope they are, reflect a reality which many visitors and incomers are happy to ignore in endless social media posts of beaches and sunsets.
Originally from Australia, Sarah now lives in the Western Isles of Scotland. She 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 paintings are in oil paint and hover between figurative and abstraction. She studied painting at the University of Arts, London and is a graduate of Turps Banana Painting Correspondence course. Sarah is a recent recipient for the Society of Scottish Artists mentor/mentee yearly programme. Sarah was awarded the Mall Galleries’ ING Discerning Eye Landscape Prize 2023.
Recent exhibition's include Art On A Post Card International Women’s Day 2024, Detail Art Gallery, Edinburgh, Irving Gallery, RSW Annual exhibition, Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London, Wells Contemporary, Royal Scottish Academy Annual. Previously Sarah has won the Jackson’s Painting Landscape Prize, was shortlisted for the Alpine Fellowship Art Prize and received the Hulabhaig Curator’s Purchase Award.
A Road Less Travelled