Sarah Woodfine
Curriculum vitae
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1968 Born in Poole, UK
1988-1991 Liverpool School of Art
1992-1995 Royal Academy Schools  London
   
Solo Exhibitions
2015 We can hardly imagine how much the angels love the truly chaste, Danielle Arnaud, London, UK
2015 VOLTA NY with Danielle Arnaud, London, UK
2011 Island, Graves Gallery, Sheffield, UK
2007 Somehwere, Ha Gamle Prestegard, Norway
2006 The Drawn Curtain, Danielle Arnaud, London, UK
2003 Dorman Museum Middlesbrough, UK
2002 Middlesbrough Art Gallery, UK
2000 Five Years, Danielle Arnaud, London, UK
1999 Ha Gamle Prestegard, Norway
  Haugesund Billedgalleri, Norway
   
Selected Group Exhibitions
2019 The Flesh of Thought, Blyth Gallery, London, UK (forthcoming)
2019 Mercurious, Danielle Arnaud, London, UK
2019 The Size of Thoughts, White Conduit Projects, London, UK
2018 A Concentration of Power, Joost van den Bergh, London, UK
2017 A bird in the head, Danielle Arnaud, London, UK
2016-2017 Strange Worlds: The Vision of Angela Carter, RWA, Bristol, UK
2016 Secret Watercolours, Incinerator Art Space, Willoughby, Australia
2014 Enclosure, Danielle Arnaud, London, UK
2014 Glass Cat 2, Wimbledon Space, Wimbledon College of Arts, UK
2013 Glass Cat, Danielle Arnaud, London, UK
2013 Re-Viewing the Landscape, Compton Verney, UK
2012 All the Dead Dears, WW Gallery, London, UK
2012 Crazee Golf, Tintype Gallery, London, UK
2012 Tryouts, Down Stairs, Great Brampton House, Herefordshire, UK
2012 Minimal, Ha Gamle Prestegard, Norway
2012 Flights of Fancy, Tatton Park Biennial, UK
2011 What the Folk Say, Compton Verney, UK
2011 Expansive Mood, Mansion House, London, UK
2010 So That I may Come Back, Danielle Arnaud, London, UK
2009 In Between the Lines, Trinity Contemporary, London, UK
2009 Northern Print Biennale, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle, UK
2009 House and Home, Harewood House, Leeds, UK
2009 Unfold, Nettie Horn, London, UK
2009 40 Artists 80 Drawings, The Drawing Gallery, UK
2008 A4 Editions, Five Years, London, UK
2008 Riddle me, Danielle Arnaud, London, UK
2008 The Beguiling ... , Bury St Edmunds Gallery
2007 isobar, Fieldgate Gallery
2006 Snowdomes, National Glass Centre, Sunderland
  When Night Draws In, Artangel Interaction project, Digby Stuart Chaplaincy, Roehampton University
  Drawing Inspiration, Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Cumbria
2005 The Drawing Gallery, London
  The Real Ideal, Sheffield Millennium Gallery
  The Nelson Touch, Maritime Museum Portsmouth
  Cloud & Vision, Museum of Garden History, London
  Staged, Danielle Arnaud contemporary art, London
  Drawing Two Hundred, The Drawing Room, London
  Only Make Believe: Ways of Playing , Compton Verney, curated by Marina Warner
2004 The Jerwood Drawing Prize
  Transmogrifications, Danielle Arnaud contemporary art, London
2003 Exhumed, Museum of Garden History, London
  Vice, Henry Peacock Gallery, London
  Great Piece of Turf, Danielle Arnaud contemporary art, London
2002 The Jerwood Drawing Prize
  Pizza Express Prospects, Essor Project Space
  In Splendid Isolation, Aspex, Portsmouth; Danielle Arnaud contemporary art, London
  By hand, Hales Gallery, London
2001 The Difference Between You and Us, Five Years, London
  The Jerwood Drawing Prize
  Xmas, Outline, Amsterdam
  A Month In The Garden, Museum of Garden History
  America, Gallery Westland Place, London
  Hit & Run, The Old Seager Brewery, London
1999 Glory Hole, London
  There Is Plenty of Sunshine in Summer, Outline, Amsterdam
  Perfume, Danielle Arnaud contemporary art, London
1998 Adorn, Jibby Beane, London
  Animal Beauty, Danielle Arnaud contemporary art, London
  Cheltenham Open Drawing Exhibition, Cheltenham, Hull, Berlin
1997 Works on Paper, Danielle Arnaud contemporary art, London
1995 Decadance, Trondjheims Kunstforening, Norway
  London, Galleri F15, Norway
   
Publications
2018 The Object in Charge, edited and designed by Kim L Pace
2016 Strange Worlds: The Vision of Angela Carter, RWA, Bristol
Fourteen Turns: Meditations on a Coffee Mill, review in Art Monthly
2015 We can hardly imagine how much the angels love the truly chaste, publication, text by Peter Suchin
2014 Glass Cat, exhibition catalogue, text by Peter Suchin
2012 Time Out review, Crazee Golf, Tintype gallery , London
2012 Frieze No 149, Flights of Fancy, review by David Trigg
2012 Flights of Fancy,Tatton Park Biennial catalogue
2012 Hyperdrawing, by TRACEY
2011 Island, publication, collaboration with text by Leslie Forbes
2008 New Gothic Art, Francesca Gavin
2007 Stavanger Aftenbladet, review, Trond Borgen
2007 Drawing Now, published by TRACEY
2007 The Guardian, review
2006 Drawing Inspiration, published by Abbot Hall Art Gallery
2006 Contemporary Annual, profile
2005 Modern Painters, review
2005 The Real Ideal, published by Sheffield Millennium Gallery
  Cloud & Vision, published by Parabola
  Only Make - Believe, catalogue published by Compton Verney, essay by Marina Warner
2004 Some Mild Peril, Published by Castlefield Gallery assembled and edited by Nick Jordan
  Sarah Woodfine, catalogue published by Museums & Galleries, Middlesbrough Council, text by Marco Livingstone
2003 Exhumed, catalogue, Published by Parabola edited by Jordan Kaplan
2002 Jerwood Drawing Prize, catalogue
  In Splendid Isolation, catalogue published by Danielle Arnaud, essay by Marco Livingstone
2001 The Jerwood Drawing Prize, catalogue
  Zoo, Issue No.8
2000 Sarah Woodfine, catalogue, published by Danielle Arnaud, essay by Martin Herbert
1999 Sarah Woodfine, catalogue published by Ha Gamle Prestegard
1998 Perfume, catalogue, essay by Marc Hulson
1995 London, catalogue, published by Galleri F15
  Decadance, catalogue, published by Trondjheims Kunstforening
   
Collections
Victoria & Albert Museum, London; Middlesbrough Art Gallery;, Ha Gamle Prestegard, Norway; and
private collections in England, U.S.A, Norway, The Netherlands, Switzerland, Hawaii and Spain
   
Awards, Residencies, Projects
Serpent Steps, performance and restoration project in the Tout Quarry Portland, Portland Sculpture Quarry Trust, Dorset.
Summer School Workshop in response to Modern Nature exhibition, Drawing Room, London, with Tania Kovats and Marcus Coates, 2019
In the realm of the Fairytale, drawing masterclass RWA, Bristol (part of Strange Worlds: The Vision of Angela Carter), 2016
Dreaming Heads, drawing workshop, PSQT, 2015
Artist in Residence at Emily Carr University, Vancouver, Canada  January – May 2015
Guest speaker at Draw 2014 International Drawing Symposium, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Artist in Residence, Carnegie Mellon University, Faculty of Fine Art, USA  November 2012
Voyager, Knutsford Children's Centre collaboration produced as an exhibition of artworks and a performance,Tatton Park Biennial, UK  2012
Island, Commission Graves Gallery,Sheffield, UK  2011
Artangel Nights of London Interactive Project  2006
The Nelson Touch Collaboration between Aspex Gallery and The Maritime Museum Portsmouth  2005
Winner The Jerwood Drawing Prize  2004
Drawing Artist in Residence Middlesbrough Art Gallery  2002
   
Teaching
2008 - present Course Leader, BA Fine Art Sculpture, Wimbledon College of Art
2017 Glasgow School of Art, BA Sculpture and Environmental Art, External Examiner
2015-2019 Brighton University, BA Fine Art Sculpture, External Examiner
2000-2010 Associate Lecturer, Wimbledon College of Art BA
1998-2000 Kunstskolen I Rogaland, Stavanger Norway
1996-2010 Blake College, London
1998-2010 Occasional Visiting Lecturer / Guest Lecturer at: Wimbledon College of Art Fine Art Painting / Print and Time Based Media, M.A Drawing, Part-Time BA, Foundation; Camberwell College of Art; Central Saint Martins BA (3D pathway); Norwich School of Art; KIAD; University of Brighton; Southampton University; Cleveland College of Art and Design; Teesside University; De Montfort University; Leeds College of Art