Approved: 20.07.2021

Sarah Feinmann

Artist, Curator, Maker, Researcher

Approved: 20.07.2021

I investigate places, surfaces and artefacts that expose their materiality, revealing their history.  In the world around me I am drawn to the ruined and fragile which is captured in my documentary photography of the out of place and the overlooked.  By exploring these edgeland spaces, I draw attention to the colour, surfaces and distinctive qualities that are found there.   The palette

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Artist Statement

I investigate places, surfaces and artefacts that expose their materiality, revealing their history.  In the world around me I am drawn to the ruined and fragile which is captured in my documentary photography of the out of place and the overlooked.  By exploring these edgeland spaces, I draw attention to the colour, surfaces and distinctive qualities that are found there.   The palette of my work has developed from the subtleties of colour found there. The placing of the colour panels reflects the subdued colour and changing textures of edgeland spaces.

CV & Education

EDUCATION
2018-2020 MA in Fine Art (Projects for Places) UCLan Preston

1978-1981 B.A. (Hons) Fine Art Manchester Polytechnic

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

2019      Overlooked  The Roper Gallery, Bath Artist Studios, Bath
2015/16 Micro Commission Solo Exhibition Waterside Art Centre, Sale, Manchester
1998      Two Person Show  with Elizabeth Stuart Smith, Dukes Oak Gallery,  Sandbach.
1991      Open House Warrington, Cheshire.
1989      Two Painters, One Sculptor, Holden Gallery, Manchester.
              North West Frontiers, Cornerhouse, Manchester.
1985      Solo Exhibition, Oldham Art Gallery, Lancashire.
1984      Two Person Show, with Tricia Gillman Castlefield Gallery, Manchester.
1983      Solo Exhibition, Bede Gallery, Jarrow, Tyne & Wear.

GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

2023.    A Small Space Stockport
            Tarpey Open 2023, Tarpey, Castle Donington
             A Small Space Manchester
             Gladly Beyond, Ten Obstructions, Rogue Artist Studios, Manchester
?           Rogue Women II Rogue Artist Studios, Manchester
             Drawn to Imperfection The Shed Gallery Online
             Tees Rogue Project Space Manchester
              Live with It   Mura Mura Marple
              Bury Open 2023 Bury Art Gallery
              A Cabinet Of Curiosities Dez Rez Manchester
              A Small Space  Square Feet Architects London
              Spark  Rogue Project Space Manchester

 2022   In the Making Ten Obstructions Salford Museum and art Gallery
              For the Love Of   Digital Publication  
              Through the Looking Glass, Ten Obstructions, The World of Glass St Helens


2021    I Didn't Lick It. Bruton Correspondence  School Bruton        
            Commonplace Beauty. Online Gallery and Zine
             From the Ground Up. Castlefield New Art Spaces Wigan

2020    From the Heart, The Pilkington gallery,  The World of Glass, St Helens 
            MA Interim Show Harris Museum Preston
            @tenobstructions Instagram exhibition, 10 bOlder artists
            MA In Fine Art Virtual Degree Show

            Kick Down the Barriers Blackburn Art Gallery
            The Hexting Project ESSAY III ‘Cornucopia’  https://vimeo.com/527374983
            Obstructions Exhibition Castlefield Gallery Manchester
            https://www.obstructions-castlefieldgallery.co.uk/?ltclid=229b630b-0c62-    4ab7-  


2019      Rogue Open Studios, Manchester
              Lancashire Open, Chapel Gallery, Ormskirk, Lancashire
              Watermarks, Ellesmere Port Waterways Museum, Ellesmere Port
              Rogue Women, Rogue Artist Studios, Manchester


2018      Waterside Open Waterside Art Centre, Manchester.
              SIZEmatters World of Glass St Helens
              The Art of Volunteering. The Whitworth Collection Centre, Manchester
              ECC Vinyl Collage Tent Gallery Edinburgh
              Land Marks   #artopenhouse Manchester
              Landmarks, The Gallery at St Georges House, Bolton


2017      Mono PS Mirabel, Manchester
              Openhouse/gardens, Old Trafford, Manchester
              Stretford Arts Collective, Summer Exhibition, Manchester
              Liverpool Artists Book Fair HB Collective
              PS Mirabel Small World
              Lancashire Open Exhibition, Chapel Gallery, Ormskirk
              Land Marks Air Gallery, Altrincham Cheshire

2016      HB Collective Artists Book Fair, Central Library, Liverpool
              Rogue 21, Waterside Art Centre, Manchester.
              There and Then Manchester

2015/16 Micro Commission Exhibition Waterside Art Centre, Sale, Manchester

2015      Manifest (Manchester International Festival)
              A6 Dialogue, Bankley House, Manchester
              ShelfLife, PS Mirabel, Manchester

2014       Open Studios. Rogue Studios


1999       Origins and Environment, Liverpool

1998       Two Person Show  with Elizabeth Stuart Smith, Dukes Oak Gallery,  Sandbach, Cheshire
 

1995-7    Open Studios, to celebrate establishing Rogue Workshops Ltd. M/cr.

1995       Women in Abstract, Turnpike Gallery, Leigh, Lancs.

1994       Art Link Feature Show, Stockport, Cheshire.   

1993       The Pike Gallery, London.
               The Dagmar Gallery, West Dulwich, London.
               The Canvas Gallery Tower Bridge, London.

1992       Shave Farm Artists, Chesil Gallery, Chesil Beach, Dorset.

1991       Three Painters, City Art Gallery Manchester.
               Creating an Image  through Art Salford Quays.
               A Friend in Need Auction, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester.

1990       Art Connections Harrogate.
               Acorn Gallery Liverpool.
               Staff Exhibition, Humberside Polytechnic, Hull.
1989       Two Painters, One Sculptor, Holden Gallery, Manchester.
               North West Frontiers, Cornerhouse, Manchester.
1986       Castlefield Retrospective, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester.
1984       Two Person Show, with Tricia Gillman Castlefield Gallery, Manchester.
1981       Stowells Trophy Royal Academy London.

AWARDS
2015        CIT Micro Commission
2019        bOlder Artists Award
2020        GMCA Creative Commissions

FELLOWSHIPS / RESIDENCIES:
1993        Triangle Artists Workshop, Pine Plains, New York, USA.

1992        Shave Farm International Artists Workshop. Somerset

PUBLICATIONS:
2020  Contributed to "Shuttered: Article about exhibitions that had been shut due to Lockdown
1989  The Art Mob. Granada TV Film by Phil Griffin.

1984  The Guardian. - William Varley.
1983  Arts Review. - Dave Lee.

COLLECTIONS:
The Rea, Arthur Andersen, Rutherstone and Private Collections.