Sara Dudman | Artist | Curator | Seeker | Sharer
Lives and works in Somerset
BA (Hons) Fine Art: Painting, Loughborough College of Art and Design
MA (distinction) Design and Manufacture, De Montfort University, Leicester
Download Sara’s catalogue of works here
Memberships
PLaCE International Artist member. Since 2024
Academician, Royal West of England Academy. Elected January 2016
National Society for Education in Art and Design. Since 1997
Selected Residencies
‘UNEARTHING’ Chase and Chalke Landscape Partnership Scheme. 2022 – 2023
‘West Penwith’ research residency Cornwall. 2021
Lizard Point Artists Residency, curated by Lumen Studios and Mayes Creative, Cornwall. 2019
Shetland (West Mainland), research residency. September / October 2017.
Unfamiliar Territories, Contains Art, East Quay, Watchet, Somerset. 2017
Staithes, North York Moors National Park. 2016
Allenheads Contemporary Arts, Northumberland. 2015
Brisons Veor artist Residency, Cape Cornwall. 2014
Selected Projects
‘ROOTED’ Blackdown Hills rural community project developing habitat restoration in conjunction with creativity. Funded by The Somerset Fund. 2024
‘Convergence’ interdisciplinary partnership with Steps-in-Stone, weaving visual arts with geological understanding of the landscape. 2023 – present
‘FLOW’ The Somerset Rural Life Museum and Somerset Wildlife Trust. 2022 – 2023
‘Somerset’s Brilliant Coast’ Somerset Wildlife Trust and Contains Art, Watchet. 2020 – 2021
Solo, 2-person and artist-led group curated exhibitions
Painting – A changed Environment, Messums West, Wiltshire. 2026
Elemental, RWA, Bristol. 2026
‘Materiality’, No Place Art, The Handbag Factory, Vauxhall, London. 2025
‘Earthbound’, Fringe Arts Bath, (works created in collaboration with earth scientist, steps-in-Stone). 2025
‘Chase & Chalke’ The Young Gallery, Salisbury. 2024
‘Where Rocks Become Sea’ The Porthminster Gallery, St Ives, Cornwall. 2023 – 2024
‘Memory Into Landscape’ Elysium Gallery, Swansea. 2022
‘Above and Below’ Artizan Gallery, Torquay, in partnership with the Tide and Time Bell. 2022
‘SHIFT: 9 artists respond to Somerset’s Brilliant Coast’ East Quay, Watchet, Somerset. 2021
‘Lizard Point Residency Exhibition’ (touring), London + Cornwall. 2019
‘The Arborealists and Guests’ Fyne Court, National Trust, Somerset. 2019
‘Northern Territories’ The Moors Centre, Yorkshire. 2018
Unfamiliar Territories, Contains Art, Somerset. 2017
‘Momentum and Walking’ Stroud Museum in the Park, Gloucestershire. 2016
Selected Exhibitions
‘Paper Works’, Royal West of England Academy 2025
‘Sustainable Art Open Exhibition’ The Atkinson Gallery, Somerset. 2024
‘FLOW’ Somerset Rural Life Museum. 2023
Royal Watercolour Society Open. 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2022
BEEP2018 Contemporary Painting Exhibition, Swansea, Wales. 2018
‘Make Your Mark’ Messums, Wiltshire. 2018
‘Perfectly Small’ exhibition by Joanna Bryant Projects, The Foundry Gallery, London. 2018
‘The Observatory: Perspectives on Landscape, Society and Spirit’ The University of Exeter. 2017
Drawn, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol. 2013, 2015 + 2017
‘A Fragile Beauty: Art on the Blackdown Hills’ The Museum of Somerset. 2017
‘The Natural Eye’ Society of Wildlife Artists Exhibition, Mall Gallery, London. 2016
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. 2015
Mostyn Open 19, Llandudno, Wales. 2015
Painting Now, One Church Street Gallery, Great Missenden. 2014
The Jerwood Drawing Prize, London, National Tour. 2014 + 2015
Sunday Times Watercolour Competition, London, Guildford. 2013 + 2014
ArtWorks Open, Barbican Arts Group Trust, London. 2014
The Open West, Newark Park and Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum. 2013