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) September / October 2017, research residency
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 2014, Cape Cornwall
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
‘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
‘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 until 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