SARA LEE
CV
EDUCATION
BA FINE ART Ravensbourne College
MA FINE ART PRINTMAKING Central School of Art. She lives and works in London.
RESIDENCIES
2017 Rajasthan - Rabley Travel Residency
2015 Venice - Rabley Travel Residency
2014 Alayrac Artists Residency
2013 Artist In Residence - Rabley Drawing Centre, England
AWARDS
2019 Sunday Times Watercolour Prize shortlist
2018 Flourish Award shortlist
2015 Prizewinner – Arthub
2013 Bainbridge Prize - Pushing Print
2010 Intaglio Printmaker Award – Originals
EXHIBITIONS
2020 IFPDA Print Fair, New York (online)
London Original Print Fair with Rabley Gallery (online)
London Art Fair with Rabley Gallery, 2014-2020
2019 Beckoning Lines, Rabley Gallery, Marlborough
Studio Stories, with Eileen Cooper RA & Julia Peintner, Boécho Gallery, London
Woolwich Print Fair, London
Masters, Bankside Gallery, London
Wales Contemporary, Milford Haven and London
Sunday Times Watercolour Competition, London, Trowbridge & Guildford
Westmoreland Landscape Prize, Cumbria
National Original Print Show, London
Wells Contemporary, Wells Cathedral
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London
Beckoning Lines, Rabley Drawing Centre (solo show)
London Original Print Fair with Rabley Gallery
Print Matters, Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Fine Art & Design, Wroclaw, Poland
London Art Fair with Rabley Gallery
2018 Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, London
Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize, (formerly Jerwood Drawing Prize) London and 3 other venues
Flourish Award, WYPW, Yorkshire; PR1, Preston; Spike Island, Bristol
National Original Print Show, London
Summer Show, Eames Gallery, London
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London
Japan, WYPW, Mirfield, Yorkshire
Bainbridge Open, Turps Gallery, London
House, RDS, Dublin with Stoney Road Press
London Original Print Fair with Rabley Contemporary
London Art Fair with Rabley Contemporary
2017 IFPDA, Art Miami with Rabley Contemporary, USA
Duo Rabley Contemporary, London & Marlborough
Cut – Contemporary Woodcut, Glasgow Print Studio, Glasgow
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London
London Original Print Fair with Rabley Contemporary
26 Eames Gallery, London
Tama Collection, Touring Exhibition, Sapporo, Japan
London Art Fair with Rabley Contemporary
Discovering Samuel Palmer, Eames Gallery, London
2016 Art Miami with Rabley Contemporary, USA
Isola with Pru Ainslie & Meryl Setchell Ainslie, Rabley Drawing Centre
Towards Night Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne, curated by Tom Hammick
Surface Cutting Royal Academy of Arts, London
Neo Print Prize, Bolton
London Original Print Fair with Rabley Contemporary
West Dean College, Chichester
London Art Fair with Rabley Contemporary
2015 Art Miami with Rabley Contemporary, USA
Eames Gallery, London
National Original Print Exhibition, Bankside, London
The Sketchbook Today, Avenue Gallery, University of Northampton (Tate Albums feature)
Arthub Open, London (Prizewinner)
Tokyo Triennial, Tama, Tokyo
Pages in Siglufjörður, Herhúsið, Iceland
London Original Print Fair with Rabley Contemporary
Drawing 10, London Art Fair with Rabley Contemporary
2014 Lustre, Rabley Drawing Centre, London
Trace - Artists In Search of a Landscape - APT Gallery, London
Neo Print Prize, Bolton
Pushing Print 5 Yrs On, Pie Factory, Margate
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2007-2014
The London Print Fair with Rabley Contemporary & Stoney Road Press
Ley of the Land, Rabley Drawing Centre (solo show)
Escape, Printroom. London
2013 Artist In Residence, Rabley Drawing Centre, Marlborough
Offline Art Fair with Works on Paper, London
Pushing Print, Margate. (Prizewinner - Bainbridge Prize)
Brook Gallery, Budleigh Salterton, Devon
Experiments with Photography, PhotoIreland, Stoney Road, Dublin.
Contemporary Print, Bainbridge Open, London
The London Print Fair with Stoney Road Press, Dublin
The Biscuit Factory, Newcastle
2012 Multiplied with Rabley Contemporary, London 2012-2015
Bite, Mall Galleries, London
Peninsula, Stoneman Gallery, Penzance (solo show)
British Printmaking, Kyoto, Japan
Drawn To Nature, Rabley Drawing Centre, Marlborough
Brook Gallery, Budleigh Salterton
The Landscape of Memory, No Format Gallery, London
2011 Print Now, Bearspace, London
Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London
Bainbridge Open, London
Bite, Mall Galleries, London
Print, Stoneman Gallery, Penzance
Japanese Print Show, Brook Gallery, Dorset
2010 Stoneman Gallery, Penzance
Originals, Mall Galleries, London. (Prizewinner)
2009 Confluence, Stoneman Gallery, Penzance
Confluence, APT Gallery, London
PROJECTS
2017-19 Beckoning Lines Series
2015-17 Isola Series
2014-17 Morning Series
2013-16 Ley of the Land Series
2011-12 The Peninsula Project, Stoneman Gallery, Cornwall
2011-12 Brisons Veor - Cornwall
2010-11 Moon Series
2009-10 Confluence Series
2009 Dance Down River - Grand Canyon
COLLECTIONS
Golder Thompson Collection, UK
Tama University Collection, Tokyo, Japan
Swindon Museum & Gallery, Modern Art Collection, UK
The Otter Collection, University of Chichester, UK
Evelina Collection, Guys & St Thomas’ UK
United Therapeutics Collection, USA
Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK
Pallant House Gallery, UK
2016 Towards Night – Towner Gallery – catalogue
2016 Francesca J Goodwin, review of Ley of the Land publication, Printmaking Today
2016 Ley of the Land - publication of Rabley Residency work
2015 At Every Turn - contribution to Eileen Cooper: Hide and Seek
2014 Ley of the Land - text to accompany residency and exhibition
2013 Sketch - catalogue contribution
2012 Glossary for Contemporary Art in Print, Paragon Press
2011-12 Peninsula - publication to accompany The Peninsula Project
2010 Originals Catalogue feature
2009 Art Quarterly article - The Art Fund Hugh Stoneman Archive
2008 Catalogue essay for ‘Hugh Stoneman - Master Printer’ Tate St Ives
2008 Glossary for ‘Hugh Stoneman - Master Printer’ Tate St Ives