Lot 79 - Sarah Jane Moon - What She Saw

ARTIST INFO

About 

Sarah Jane Moon is a painter who specialises in portraiture and figurative painting. Her work explores identity, gender and connection to place. Physically, her paintings are large, gestural and suffused with a love of colour, surface and her chosen medium: oil paint. She has exhibited with the National Portrait Gallery, Royal Society of Portrait Painters, New English Art Club and the New Zealand Portrait Gallery among others. She has been a recipient of the Arts Charitable Trust Award, the Bulldog Bursary for Portraiture and is a member of the Contemporary British Portrait Painters. Her work has been featured in Time Magazine, The Guardian, Wallpaper* and Studio International. Moon is originally from New Zealand and has lived in Japan, Malaysia and Australia. She has postgraduate qualifications in Art Theory and Curatorial Practice from Universities in NZ and Australia as well as qualifications in Portrait Painting from The Heatherley School of Fine Art in London. She teaches regularly at Heatherley's and occasionally at other institutions in the Uk and abroad. In the UK, Moon works in Sussex and London and when in New Zealand she paints in the Bay of Plenty. 

Sarah is originally from New Zealand and has lived in Japan, Malaysia and Australia.  

Education 

2009 – 2011 Diploma in Portrait Painting 
The Heatherley School of Fine Art, London, UK 
2006 – 2007 BA (Hons) Visual Arts Theory 
University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia 
2000 – 2003 BA - Art History, English Literature, Japanese 
Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand 

Select Exhibitions/Awards 

AWARDS  
 
2016 Pride Power List 
 
2015 Arts Club Charitable Trust Award, NEAC 
 
2013 Bulldog Bursary, Royal Society of Portrait Painters 
 
2003 Woolf Prize for Excellence in Art History  
 
Selected Exhibitions 

2023 
 
Georgina Beyer, The New Zealand Portrait Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand 
 
The Molly Morpeth Canaday Art Awards, Te Koputu a te whanga a Toi, Whakatane, New Zealand 
 
2022 
 
Unapologetic Sexuality, Saint George Street, London, UK  
 
Pride Art Exhibition, MUFG London, UK 
 
2021 
 
Society of Women Artists Annual Exhibition, Mall Galleries Online 
 
Figurative Art Now, Mall Galleries, Online 
 
Rebel Dykes Art & Archive Exhibition, Space Station 65 Gallery, London, UK 
 
Heart Of The Matter, Gillian Jason Gallery, Online  
 
2020 
 
ING Discerning Eye Exhibition, Online  
 
BP Portrait Award Exhibition, National Portrait Gallery Online & Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen, UK 
 
The Family Unit, Thompson’s Galleries, London, UK 
 
2019 
 
Rogue Women, Rogue Artists Studios, Manchester, UK 
 
Queer Portraits, The Department Store, London, UK 
 
Face To Face 2019: Works By BP Portrait Award Artists, Cass Art Islington, London, UK 
 
BP Portrait Award Exhibition, National Portrait Gallery, London & Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh, UK 
 
2018 
 
Queer Art(ists) Now, Archive Gallery, London, UK 
 
Portraits: Facing Others & The Self, Clifford Chance, London, UK 
 
This Joyous Chaotic Place, Mokopopaki, Auckland, New Zealand 
 
Threesome, New Art Projects, London & The Gallery, Liverpool, UK 
 
2017 
 
The Full Picture: Oxford in Portraits, Weston Library, Oxford, UK 
 
In Your Face, Salisbury Arts Centre, Salisbury, UK 

 
2016 
 
Beyond Margins, Menier Gallery, London, UK 
 
Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London, UK 
 
2015 
 
The Royal Institute of Oil Painters Annual Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London, UK 
 
The Contemporary Portrait, Thompson’s Galleries, London, UK 
 
The Ruth Borchard Self Portrait Prize, Piano Nobile, London, UK 
 
The Molly Morpeth Canaday Art Awards, Te Koputu a te whanga a Toi, Whakatane, New Zealand 

You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.