Born in Germany and raised in Kenya. Sarah Younan worked in the areas of conservation, restoration and theatre stage design in Germany prior to beginning her fine art studies in the Netherlands in 2007. Younan moved to Wales in 2009 and completed her PhD at Cardiff School of Art and Design in January 2016. As an artist, Younan has exhibited work both in the UK and abroad. Her academic and artistic work has been recognised through a number of grants and awards.
Born in Germany and raised in Kenya. Sarah Younan worked in the areas of conservation, restoration and theatre stage design in Germany prior to beginning her fine art studies in the Netherlands in 2007. Younan moved to Wales in 2009 and completed her PhD at Cardiff School of Art and Design in January 2016. As an artist, Younan has exhibited work both in the UK and abroad. Her academic and artistic work has been recognised through a number of grants and awards.
Sarah's practice spans across performance, ceramics, digital technologies, research and maintenance art. She has extensive experience working with vulnerable adults and is passionate about socially engaged art.
Born in Germany and raised in Kenya. Sarah Younan worked in the areas of conservation, restoration and theatre stage design in Germany prior to beginning her fine art studies in the Netherlands in 2007. Younan moved to Wales in 2009 and graduated at Bachelor level from the Cardiff School of Art in Design in 2011. After working as a museum guide at the Musée des Beaux Arts in Bordeaux, France, Younan returned to Cardiff to pursue an Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) funded Masters course in ceramics. Younan graduated in 2012 and was awarded an AHRC doctoral studentship for her research on digital engagement with heritage artefacts. She completed her PhD at Cardiff School of Art and Design in January 2016. As an artist, Younan has exhibited work both in the UK and abroad. Her academic and artistic work has been recognised through a number of grants and awards.
Degrees
Doctor of Philosophy in Art (PhD), Postgraduate Certificate in Research Skills (CRS), Certificate in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (CELTA), Master (Hons) in Ceramics (MA), Bachelor (Hons) in Ceramics (BA)
Awards
· Arts Council of Wales Research and Development Grant, 2017
· STEP Travel Grant, European Cultural Foundation, 2017
· Creu Cymru: Children’s Work Comission, 2017
· Wales Arts International, International Opportunities Fund, 2016
· CHArt Helene Roberts Bursary, co-sponsored by Routledge, Taylor & Francis, 2015
· Arts Council Wales Grant for organisations, with the National Museum Cardiff, 2014
· Wales Arts International, International Opportunities Fund, 2014
· Design with Heritage Knowledge Exchange Funding, 2013
· Afterlife of Heritage Research Grant, 2013
· WIRAD/AHRC Doctoral Studentship, 2012
· Fenton Group Award, 2011
· WIRAD Research Scholarship for the CSAD MA Ceramics course, 2011
Experience/conference presentations
· MIRUS Trust, support worker for people with disabilities, 2017
· CARU Arts re Search Conference, Brookes University, Oxford, 2017
· HomeInstead Senior Care, support worker for senior citizens, 2016
· Social Innovation through the Arts, New Orleans Institute for Social Innovation, Southern University, Joan Mitchell Centre, New Orleans, USA, 2016
· Visiting lectures and workshops, Haçettepe University Ankara, Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi Izmir, Turkey, 2016
· Jury Member, Altin Testi Ceramics Competition, Izmir. Turkey, 2016
· Volunteer Assistant German Teacher, Refugee Centre, Community Centre Nellingen, Germany, 2015
· Research Associate, assistant tutor and lecturer, Cardiff Metropolitan University, Cardiff School of Art and Design, Cardiff, UK, 2012-6
· Computers and the History of Art (CHArt), The King’s College London FABRICATION Arts & Humanities Festival, London, UK, 2015 http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/ahfest/index.aspx
· Making Futures, 4th biennial international research conference, Plymouth College of Art, UK, 2015 http://makingfutures.plymouthart.ac.uk/
· Electronic Visualisation technologies in the Arts (EVA), London, UK, 2015 http://www.eva-london.org/
· The International Ceramics Festival, Aberystwyth, Wales, UK, 2015 http://www.internationalceramicsfestival.org/
· Ceramics in the Expanded Field Conference, University of Westminster, UK, 2014, http://www.ceramics-in-the-expanded-field.com/events/conference-17-19-july-2014
· Behind the Scenes of the Museum: Artists in Collections, Symposium, National Museum Cardiff, Axisweb, Cardiff, UK, 2014
· Afterlife of Heritage workshop, Institute for Cultural Practices, University of Manchester, UK, 2013 http://www.heritageafterlife.com/
· Design with Heritage, Knowledge Exchange project, AHRC, UCL, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK, 2013 http://www.designwithheritage.org/
· Di-Egy Fest 0.1; Consciousness Reframed: Art and Consciousness in the Post-Biological Era, Cairo, Egypt, 2013 http://www.di-egyfest.com/conference.html
· Student workshop, The Digital Exploration of Museum Galleries, Cardiff School of Art and Design, Cardiff, UK, 2013
· Gallery assistant/artist in residence, Tactile Bosch Gallery, Cardiff, UK, 2011
· Museum guide / workshops with children and teens, Musée des Beaux Arts Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France, 2010
· Internship stage design, ‘Bühnen der Stadt Köln´, National Theatre of Cologne, Germany , 2006-7
· Internship restoration, ‘Wooth Restaurierungen´, Baden-Baden, Germany, 2005
Publications
· The Cleaner, the Saint and the Hermit Crab: On The Source, Llandudno, June – July 2016, Oxford Artistic and Practice Based Research Plattfrom OAR, Issue 1 http://www.oarplatform.com/response/cleaner-saint-hermit-crab-source-llandundo/
· Poaching Museum Collections using Digital 3D technologies, CITAR, 2016 http://artes.ucp.pt/citarj/article/view/152
· Journal of Science and Technology of the Arts, 2015 http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:3vlJ_JEaOGkJ:artes.ucp.pt/citarj/article/download/152/118+&cd=4&hl=tr&ct=clnk&gl=tr
· Fabricating the Dream Space, conference paper, CHArt London, 2015 http://www.chart.ac.uk/chart2015/abstracts/younan.html
· Digital 3D Models of Heritage Artefacts, Journal of Digital Applications in Archaeology and Cultural Heritage (DAACH), Elsevier http://www.journals.elsevier.com/digital-applications-in-archaeology-and-cultural-heritage/
· Towards a Digital Museum Dream Space, peer-reviewed conference paper, EVA London, 2015 http://ewic.bcs.org/category/18483
· Digital Three-Dimensional Copies of Museum Artefacts; Dynamics of Access, Ownership, and Meaning, conference paper, Di-Egy Fest 0.1; International Conference on Digital Arts within the International Research Conference in the SeriesConsciousness Reframed: Art and Consciousness in the Post-Biological Era, Cairo, Egypt, 2013 http://di-egyfest.com/
Residencies
· Artist in Residence, Tabernacle Chapel, CALL Culture Action Llandudno, North Wales, UK, 2016
· Artist in residence, Lilypond Arts Centre, Nanyuki, Kenya, 2012
· Artist in Residence, Sommeratelier Shedhalle, experimental light and installation festival, Tübingen, Germany, 2011
Selected exhibitions & fairs
•The Vagina Monologues, performance at The Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, Cardiff, 2017
•Garden of Earthly Delights, Cardiff Contemporary, Cardiff, 2016
•The Museum of Dust, at LLAWN (Llandudno Art Weekend), Llandudno, North Wales, 2016
•The Source, performance, residency and solo exhibition at the Tabernacle Chapel, Llandudno, North Wales 2016
•A Space To Call My Own, curated exhibition for Cer Modern Museum, Ankara, Turkey, 2016
•Jakarta Contemporary Ceramics Biennial, National Gallery of Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia, 2014
•(Im)material Artefacts, curated exhibition for the National Museum Cardiff, Cardiff, UK, 2014
•Paradise Lost, Cardiff Contemporary, Tactile Bosch, Cardiff, UK, 2014
•British Ceramics Biennial, Spode Factory Site, Stoke-On Trent, UK, 2013
•MA Degree Show, Cardiff School of Art and Design, Cardiff, UK, 2012
•Hidden Cities, Koza Visual Culture and Arts Association, Istanbul, Turkey, 2012
•Cardiff Open, Cardiff Arts Collective, High Street, Cardiff, UK, 2012
•Blowback, Tactile Bosch Galleries, Cardiff, UK, 2012
•Being, Vertical Cinema, Queen’s Arcade, Cardiff, 2012
•British Ceramics Biennial, Spode Factory Site, Stoke-On-Trent, UK, 2011
•Plattform, Sommeratelier Shedhalle, experimental light and installation festival, Tübingen, Germany, 2011
•‘Divide and Rule´, Film and Live Art Festival, The Fire Station Centre for Arts & Culture, Windsor, UK, 2011
•New Designers, Business Design Centre, London, UK, 2011
