Sarah Bold, 'Shifting'

Originally from Australia, Sarah lives in the Western Isles of Scotland. Sarah is a landscape painter interested in the significant impact of human activity upon the planet’s ecosystems, geology and climate, and more specifically how this relates to the rural environment. Issues such as climate change, the coastal and marine environment, agriculture, isolation and migration underpin her work, whilst considering our transitory existence in relation to the geological age of the Earth. Her paintings are in oil paint and hover between figurative and abstraction.

She studied painting at the University of Arts, London and is a graduate of Turps Banana Painting Correspondence course and is a recent recipient for the Society of Scottish Artists mentor/mentee yearly programme.  

Recent exhibitions include the John Ruskin Art prize, Art On A Post Card International Women’s Day 2024, Detail Art Gallery, Edinburgh, Irving Gallery, RSW Annual exhibition, Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London, Wells Contemporary, Royal Scottish Academy Annual. Previously Sarah was awarded the Mall Galleries’ ING Discerning Eye Landscape Prize 2023, Jackson’s Painting Landscape Prize, was shortlisted for the Alpine Fellowship Art Prize and received the Hulabhaig Curator’s Purchase Award.