Sarah Davenport
Born England, 1968
BA Fine Art - First Class - University of Leeds, 1990
MA Sculpture Studies - Distinction - University of Leeds, 1991
Awards
Purchase Prize - Kent Art and Libraries
Light in Art - The Prudential
Research Award - The Henry Moore Sculpture Trust
Major Award - The British Council
The Passey Prize in Art - University of Leeds
One-person shows
2005 Belongings - Toni Heath Gallery, London
2001 Fit and Proper - London Stock Exchange
2000 As Seen on TV - bbb contemporary art, London
1998 Vocabulary - Oliver J Benjamin, London
1995 Methodiz'd - Casson Gallery, Eastbourne
1993 Chairs & Stripes - Newlyn Gallery, Leeds
1992 Country Seat - Lotherton Hall, Aberford
Selected group shows
2010 Socle - High Street, Bow, London
2007 Torture Care - auction show, London
2005 Secret - Royal College of Art, London
2005 IDEA/You are de-corator, London
2005 Artmix - Workplace Art, London
2004 Secret - Royal College of Art, London
2004 The Makers - Soup Projects, London
2003 Pop Culture - Beatrice Royal Art Gallery, Southampton
2002 Size Matters - Stephen Lacey Gallery, London
2001 ARTFutures - Contemporary Art Society, London
Beyond the studio
2009 - In Discussion invited artist, Lee Campbell projects
2004/05 - Chair of Matrix Chambers artworks committee
2002/03 - Assistant to Sir Nicholas Serota then Vicente Todolì, Director, Tate Modern
2001 - Organiser of Larnaca Works Open Studios, London
1999 - Collaborated with Gillian Cargill on her Reclining Artists photo project
1997 - Land included in 1998 Women Artists Diary, Womens Press
1992/94 - Austin Wright catalogue raisonné, Henry Moore Sculpture Trust / Lund Humphries
1992 - Speaker at Association of Art Historians conference, Subversions/Objects
Work in collections
Kent Arts and Libraries
The British Institute of Human Rights
Private collections in Australia, Canada, Germany, India, Spain, UK and USA