Sarah Nicholson

Education and Training

2004 – 2005 7407 City & Guilds Level 4 in Adult Education at Blackburn House, Liverpool.
2003 – 2004 MA Fine Art, BIAD, Birmingham.
1998 NVQ Level Three Business Management at the Graduate Resource Centre, Liverpool.
1994 - 1997 BA (Hons), Fine Art, University of Central Lancashire, Preston.
1993 - 1994 Foundation Studies at Liverpool John Moores University.

Awards

2004 Arts Council of England funding for Chemical Landscapes.
2003 AHRB full funding for MA Studies.
2000 Capital Investment Grant from ACID.
NWAB Individual Development Award for Outside the Archive.
M.O.V.E. Project Award for Light Sensations.
1999 Target Marketing and Publicity Grant from ACID.
1998 Business Start Up Grant from the Graduate Training Resource.
NWAB Artist Led Curatorship Grant for Origins and Evolution.
NWAB Production Award for Archival Silence.
Princes Youth Business Trust Business Start Up and Capital Investment Grant.
1997 Princes Youth Business Trust Test Marketing Grant.

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2005 Navigating a New Home at the Atkinson Gallery, Southport.
2004 Chemical Landscapes, at the Catalyst Discovery Centre, Halton, Cheshire.
2003 The Look of Love, a romantic installation reflecting on Valentines Day at Norton Priory.
Family Tree, a temporary installation exploring matriarchal roles for West Lancashire District Council.
2002 Clutter, a new installation at the Alsager Gallery, Manchester Metropolitan University.
2001 Poetic Possessions a multimedia exhibition and event for Cleveland Arts, Stockton-on-Tees
Off the Shelf II, with Halton Borough Council’s Arts Development Unit.
Light Works at the Skelmersdale Arts Centre and the Concourse Centre. Commissioned by West Lancashire District Council.
New Works at Saunders and Senior, Norwich.
2000 Outside the Archive, an installation at Kirkby Gallery, Merseyside.
New Works at the Brewery Arts Centre, Kendal.
1998 Off the Shelf, installation facilitated by Residency and Community Workshops at Halewood Library, Liverpool.
What’s in the Box? at the School of Architecture, Liverpool.
1997 Casting, an installation for Prema Arts Centre, Stroud, Gloucestershire.

Selected Group Exhibitions

2005 Affordable Art Fair, Battersea with the Barn Gallery.
Head-Stone, with SJ Krakiewicz at Norton Priory Museum.
2004 MESH, exploring the stitch in contemporary art. Various galleries on Hackney Broadway, London.
Artists@Work group exhibition of Cheshire Open Studios artists at the Grosvenor Gallery, Chester.
2003 Entry, exhibition across seven schools and community centres in West Bromwich, for the PUBLIC.
2002 Ladies Only, Northwest women artists show coinciding with the 2nd Liverpool Biennial.
Subversive Testimonies, at the ‘Meno Projektu Studija’ (Arts Projects Studio), Vilnius, Lithuania.
HELP, (Heritage, Environment, Liverpool Project) with English Heritage, exploring the nature of culture from the roots up.
Telling Tales at the Artstation, Crewe.
New Works at the Woolff Gallery, London.
2001 Second Hand Suits, Brixton Art Gallery, London.
Fab-rick, Stroud House Gallery, Stroud.
2000 International Women’s Day Exhibition at Blackburn House, Liverpool.
Light Sensations, an Installation with Susan Leask at Stockport Art Gallery.
1999 The Box Room, a collaborative installation with Stanislaw Jan Krakiewicz as part of the First Liverpool Biennial.
Artspace, at the Barn Galleries, Henley on Thames.
1998 Delicate Dissidence: Five Women Artists, at the Woodlands Gallery, London
Vital Art at Atlanta Gallery, London.
1997 First Graduate Exhibition, Stroud House Gallery, Stroud.
Wax Works, a touring exhibition organised by the Collins Gallery, Glasgow.
Visionfest at the Atkinson Gallery, Southport.
1996 Stairways Exhibition, a show of drawings at the Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston.
From the Fibre, at the Sugar Store, Brewery Arts Centre, Kendal