Sarah Anderson
Sarah Anderson was born and raised in Ōtautahi/Christchurch and has a strong affiliation with the coastal region of the Rakaia River and the small coastal settlement known as Rakaia Huts. Her ‘hut’ has been in the family for nearly 100 years and holds a very special place in her heart. Many of her paintings reference this area, a place populated by stones of great and subtle beauty.
She likes to invent new ‘worlds of the mind’ with her work, but the jumping-off point for these flights of fancy are always bedded firmly in the natural world.
Sarah trained at The University of Canterbury achieving both a BFA in Sculpture and a Post Grad. Diploma in Art Curatorship.
Awards
1987 | Queen Elizabeth 11 Arts Council, Young Artists Award
1986 | Rosemary Johnson Muller Memorial Scholarship for Sculpture
Projects
2022 | Member of Associates art group & regular exhibitor since 2019
2015 | Curator, Wisteria, Corn & the Vegetable Outlaws, Hanmer Springs Gallery
2015 | Creative Producer/Stage Manager/Fundraiser for Ex Tenebris Lux, a mixed media theatre production in collaboration with Jeremy Roake performed at the 2015 Christchurch Body Festival of Dance & Performance
2014 | Vanishing Point, a publication exploring current environmental issues in the Mackenzie Basin from an artist’s perspective. In collaboration with Bing Dawe, John Emery & Keith Walter, text & curation by Sarah Anderson
2013 | on the curatorial team for [IN]Box at ArtBox Christmas Show
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