Sarah Davenport
Location: Bethnal Green / Stratford
Website: www.sarahdavenport.co.uk Sarah Davenport is an artist based in east London, her work is about objects, buildings and words. She is fascinated by ordinary manmade stuff, marked by traces of memory and experience. Davenport's work is in public and private collections in the UK, Australia, Spain, India, Germany, Canada and the USA.
Born England, 1968
BA Fine Art - First Class - University of Leeds, 1990
MA Sculpture Studies - Distinction - University of Leeds, 1991
Awards:
Purchase Prize - Kent Art and Libraries
Light in Art - The Prudential
Research Award - The Henry Moore Sculpture Trust
Major Award - The British Council
The Passey Prize in Art - University of Leeds
Current Projects:
2011 - Public Art Delivery Plan consultancy for Stock Woolstencroft Architects
2010 - Joined the Board of Trustees of Acme Studios
Exhibitions
One-person shows:
2005 Belongings - Toni Heath Gallery, London
2001 Fit and Proper - London Stock Exchange
2000 As Seen on TV - bbb contemporary art, London
1998 Vocabulary - Oliver J Benjamin, London
1995 Methodiz'd - Casson Gallery, Eastbourne
1993 Chairs & Stripes - Newlyn Gallery, Leeds
1992 Country Seat - Lotherton Hall, Aberford
Selected group shows:
2010 Socle - High Street, Bow, London
2007 Torture Care - auction show, London
2005 Secret - Royal College of Art, London
2005 IDEA/You are de-corator, London
2005 Artmix - Workplace Art, London
2004 Secret - Royal College of Art, London
2004 The Makers - Soup Projects, London
2003 Pop Culture - Beatrice Royal Art Gallery, Southampton
2002 Size Matters - Stephen Lacey Gallery, London
2001 ARTFutures - Contemporary Art Society, London
Beyond the studio:
2009 - In Discussion invited artist, Lee Campbell projects
2004/05 - Chair of Matrix Chambers artworks committee
2002/03 - Assistant to Sir Nicholas Serota then Vicente Todolì, Director, Tate Modern
2001 - Organiser of Larnaca Works Open Studios, London
1999 - Collaborated with Gillian Cargill on her Reclining Artists photo project
1997 - Land included in 1998 Women Artists Diary, Womens Press
1992/94 - Austin Wright catalogue raisonné, Henry Moore Sculpture Trust / Lund Humphries
1992 - Speaker at Association of Art Historians conference, Subversions/Objects
