Lot 465 - Sarah Pickstone - Damascus Rose 25

Watercolour on paper
2025
A6 (10x15cm)
Original Artwork
Signed on Verso
Curated by Hannah Tilson

About
Sarah Pickstone is a painter who lives and works in London. Her work looks at structures of art history and literature and draws on motifs from historical sources. The work is however predominantly concerned with process and the material and time-based nature of paint.

Education
Royal Academy Arts London postgraduate
University of Newcastle Upon Tyne BA undergraduate

Solo Exhibitions
2023
Billboard 23
Kingsgate Gallery, London, UK

2018 – 19
An Allegory of Painting
Royal Academy Arts, London, UK

2017
Other Stories
Southwark Park Galleries, London, UK

2016
The Rehearsal
Mercer Gallery, Harrogate Museum, UK

2015
The Writers Series
New Art Centre, Wilts, UK

Group Exhibitions
2025
A Plan for Living
Thameside Gallery, London, UK
Renaissance of Being, curated by Bengu Gun, London, UK

2024
Cubitt Invites
Cubitt, London, UK

2023
Cubitt 30
Victoria Miro Gallery, London, UK

2022
The Return
Kingsgate Gallery, London, UK

2021
Fully Awake
Holden Gallery, Manchester School of Art, UK
Knocking it Out Of The Park
Gallery 46, London, UK

Awards
2012
John Moores Painting Prize First Prize

2004
John Moores painting Prize Runner up

1991-1992
Rome Scholarship in Painting

Public Collections
Royal Academy Arts, London, UK
Societe Generale Collection, London, UK
Mercer Gallery, Yorkshire Museums Collection, UK
Walker Art Gallery, National Museums of Liverpool, UK
The Saatchi Collection, UK
British School at Rome, Italy

Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork
Damascus Rose 25 is a new painting based on a large work made in 2017. The original painting was made thinking about the Rose as symbol of English history. The flower - which I love - in fact migrated from the middle east, Syria and the Himalayas. The large hand is loosely based on a drawing - bottom left corner - from Guernica. War, beauty, destruction.