Who is sarah?

Hello

I'm an award winning Melbourne based artist, writer and creative entrepreneur with a prolific body of work - including illustrations, comics, animations, creative strategy workbooks, community art projects, essays and thought pieces.

For the past 8 years I've run a successful small business offering live illustration, graphic recording and strategic visualisation services across industries. This year I was appointed deputy chair on the board of directors for the Cultural Development Network.

I'm currently working on my debut graphic novel, that is an exploration of trying to make sense of the world. I draw from lived experience as well as philosophy, science and theory. The format wanders idiosyncratically from the personal to the critical, covering multiple topics all tied together with the recurring questions of: How much of life is invented? Where is the divide between reality and perception? How can a person do good?

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Writing

2017

• Making Sense Of Complexity

• What's Your Favourite Flavour of Shit Sandwich?

• Untangle Your Brain & Think On The Page

• What to do when things aren't working?

• The Value of Challenging Your Cognitive Biases

• Observations From A Fly on The Wall 2

• Observations From A Fly on The Wall 1

• Courage in Uncertain Times

• Endings & Beginnings MAQTOOB for Entrepreneurs

2016

• Outside Your Comfort Zone

• Should We Fight Against Procrastination?

• How & Why I Take Creative Retreats

• No One Does Anything Alone Local Story Space

• Unpacking the Starving Artist and Do What You Love Myths

• When You Find Yourself in The Dark Forest

• Navigating a Noisy World by Defining Your Values

• When Nightmares Come True

Appointed deputy chair on the board of directors for the Cultural Development Network in 2018.

The purpose of the association is to advocate for the essential role of arts and cultural expression in the development of creative, healthy, engaged and sustainable communities and support local government cultural development staff and others to assist and resource local communities to make and express their own culture.

SPEAKER

2018

• Crispy Synthetic Heat Winter Reading Series

• Visual Communication Design Forum - UTS

• Read To Me - Know St Bar Sydney

• Read To Me - State Library of Victoria

• Creative Industry Panel Mous Magazine

2017

• Ubud Writers Festival Indonesia

• Read To Me at the Jogjakarta Biennale

• Lakes International Comic Festival UK

• Read To Me - Drawing Voice

• Starving Artist Podcast Launch

• Filmme Fatales Review Panel Melbourne Art Book fair NGV

2012 - 2016

• An Inkpot of Fate Tasmanian Writers Festival

• Graphic Recording Panel Stanley Awards

• Human Rights Arts & Film Festival Award Winners Panel

• Face to Face Project Launch

Films & Animations

2018

• Speak Out thinking out loud

2016

• Organisational Communication Uni Melb

• Youth Policy 2016 Vic Gov Dept Edu

2015

• Body Language experimental film

• HEADSHOTS experimental film

• Lady Gagayrus Minajaperry ADULT animation

• Organisational Culture Uni Melb

• Funeral Selfie Triptank Comedy Central

• St Patrick's Day Triptank Comedy Central

• B&B Valentine Triptank Comedy Central

2014

• Oxfam Connect Oxfam South Africa

• Environmental Justice Australia EDO

• Beyond 100: Children's Views ACT Gov

• Justice Connect Series

• To Coach or Mentor? Swinburne Uni

2013

• YouthLaw Helping Young People YouthLaw

• Crafting Pathways Wellsprings for Women

• Birth and Death experimental animation

• Los errores en México experimental film

• Children's Stories: From Melbourne to Mexico workshop documentary

2012

• GTK Mexico rap videos

• Print on Wood Print on Wood

• Gentlemen, Please! VCA animation

• Because I am a Girl PLAN International

• Food Rules Michael Pollan

2011

• SUNDAY experimental film

• Face to Face: Children's Stories doco

• Sounds experimental animation

• Guitar Hands experimental film

• Mother experimental animation

2008 - 2010

• ALIGN experimental animation

• SELF experimental animation

• Riding the Coattails of Success comedy

• Hana Mizu experimental animation

• Y-Fronts in the Wind experimental film

Publications

2018

• Australia’s Top Literary Comics The Conversation

• Frankie Good Stuff Award Winner Issue #83

• 2018 Ledger Awards Annual

• Neither Here Nor Hair comic anthology

2017

• Who Likes Short Shorts self published

• Have A Seat Or Don't self published

• Bread & Roses #1 Silent Army Storeroom

• Frightful Irregularities Comic Art Workshop

• A Trip To York self published

• Bogongs and Bongs self published

• The Day We Didn't Go Into A Brothel self published

• My Thoughts Inkspot Magazine

2016

• Graphic Recording - A Definitive Guide To Live Illustration GESTALTEN

• Early Harvest #5 100 Story Building

• Comics Are For Everyone Medium

• Drink Drank Drink THE NIB

• Buried Treasure self published

• Lycra Lovers Room Press

2015

• David Attenborough & Friends self published

• Sketchbook World Tour Princeton Architectural Press

• Early Harvest #4 100 Story Building

• White Whine self published

• Our Purpose & Values Australian Ethical

• A Ghost Story Medium

• A Class Apart Medium

• In The Way Medium

2014

• Have a Seat or Don't THE NIB

• Early Harvest #3 100 Story Building

• Wake Up, Aussie Aussie Aussie, Oi, Oi, Oi!

• Vignette Vinaigrette Sketchbook Project

• Wake Up Minicomic Of The Month Club

2010 - 2013

• Early Harvest #2 100 Story Building

• Food Wank TimeOut Melbourne

• Adi & Sarah Draw Life Sketchbook Project

• Resident Comic Artist Rehab

MEDIA & INTERVIEWS

2018

• Dealing with rejection in the arts

• Frankie Good Stuff Award Winner Issue #83

2017

• Hot Chicks With Big Brains QnA

• Starving Artist Creative Strategy Ep. 7

• Vice Creators Starving Artist Launch

• Studio interview with Local Story Space

• You don't need to be a starving artist

• Go Goldfields graphic recordings and site

• Chantilly Studio Residency CS

• No One Does Anything Alone LSS

• The Impossible Wall Kill Your Darlings

2016

• Treaty Consultation Results Aboriginal VIC

• Talking Comics, Money & Art: Part 1 TSR

• Talking Comics, Money & Art: Part 2 TSR

• Treaty Consultation NITV

• Face to Face Children's Stories Film SFTL

• Diversity & Social Education SFTL

• Wodonga 2023 Plan Wodonga Council

2015

• An Inkpot of Fate Tasmanian Writers and Festival

• Resilient Melbourne Strategy

• Review Tasmanian Writers Festival

• Sketchbook World Tour SMH

• Unpacking The Money Shot Spook Mag

• The Suburban Review Residency TSB

• The Pencil is Mightier than the Sword ABC

2007 - 2011

• Unity in Diversity Right Now

• SELF animation National Portrait Gallery

• Emerging Artist Reel Time Arts

CURRICULUM VITAE

Education

2018: Visual Practice Workshop, systems thinking and professional development with Presencing Institute, Melbourne

2014: EuViz, graphic recording and facilitation training forum, through the International Forum Of Visual Practitioners, Berlin

2011 - 2014: Graphic recording and facilitation training with the difference at PwC, KPMG U-Collaborate and the ASE at Capgemini

2012: 13 week Graduate Animation Intensive at the Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne

2006: Second exchange to Kyoto Seika University, Japan

2005: Scholarship and exchange to LASALLE SIA College of the Arts, Singapore

2004: First exchange to Kyoto Seika University, Japan

2003 – 2006: Bachelor of Fine Arts with Honours at the Australian National University, Canberra

workshop, teaching, facilitation & festival experience

2016: Carbon Arts Garden of Earthly Delights interactive environmental pledge project at the Castlemaine State Festival

2014 - 2016: Graphic Recording training workshops

2014: Jervis Bay School comic workshop with the ACT Children & Young People Commissioner

2014: IWDA Annual Reflection two-day strategic planning workshop

2013: Australian Red Cross, Australian Volunteers In Development Program, Annual Reflection, two-day strategic planning workshop

2012: Cultural Comic Workshops with the Imagina Museum and the Arquetopia Foundation, in Puebla, Mexico with students ages 6 - 15yrs

2012: Talking Difference Workshops with the Immigration Museum Fellowship with primary school students aged 10 – 12yrs

2012: Bondi Pavilion Animation Classes series of three-day animation intensive workshops with children and teenagers aged 10 – 16yrs

2010-2011: Face to Face comic drawing workshops with the Cultural Council in Springvale and local primary school groups of children aged 5 – 12yrs

Selected prizes, awards, commissions and residencies

2018: Finalist in the Incinerator Art Award: Art For Social Change 2018

2018: Winner of the Frankie Magazine Good Stuff Awards in the Video category, for my animation

2018: Comic collection Short Shorts finalist in the Ledger Awards

2017: Krack! Studio Residency, Jogjakarta, Indonesia with The Comic Art Workshop

2016: HEADSHOTS - official selection of the Aesthetica Short Film Festival

2016: PLAN poster Civil Society Innovation Award

2015: First Prize winner at the BrunswickArts Show

2015: The Comic Art Workshop Residency

2014: Winner at the SquishFace Studio Coaster Show

2013: Wake Up, (mini-comic) nominated for the Ledger Awards

2013: Crafting Pathways, a documentary about the Wellsprings For Women Inc. Centre, funded by the Margaret Lawrence Bequest

2012: Gentlemen, Please! was selected as a finalist in the Peninsula Short Film Festival, Rosebud, VIC

2012: People’s Choice Award Face to Face: Children’s Stories, in the Australian Shorts section of the Human Rights Arts and Film Festival ACMI, VIC

2012: Arquetopia Artist in Residency in Oaxaca and Puebla, Mexico

2012: Chantilly Studios Artist in Residency, Nicholson Building, Melbourne

2011: Awarded the Talking Difference Fellowship at the Immigration Museum, Melbourne, VIC

2010-2011: Artist in residency with the Cultural Council in Springvale VIC as part of their Face to Face project

2010: SELF animation, selected as a finalist in the National Youth Portrait Prize, the National Portrait Gallery, Canberra

2010: Commissioned to make a drawing machine by Experimenta Media Arts, Melbourne

2009: CAPO Grant, Canberra

2009: Winner of the CCAS Copy Cat Show, Manuka CCAS Gallery, Canberra

2009: Solander Gallery Art Prize, Tuggeranong RYA, Tuggeranong Arts Centre, Canberra

2009: Y-Fronts in the Wind, finalist in Canberra Short Film Festival, DENDY Short Seasons and winner of Best Screenplay made for Lights! Canberra! Action! 

2007: Commission - drawing machine for Performing Objects and Machines, Carriage Works Sydney

2006: Selected for 25/25: Australia’s top 25 artists aged 25 and under, sponsored and selected by Art & Australia in collaboration with Noise, Sydney

2006: Awarded exhibitions at The Front Gallery, The Hive and The Grammar School Gallery through the Emerging Artist’s Scheme

2006: Awarded the LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts Singapore Scholarship, Singapore

2006: Awarded the ANU Nigel Thompson Travelling Scholarship, Canberra

Selected group exhibitions, Fairs, performances and festival screenings

2018: Incinerator Art Award: Art For Social Change 2018

2018: The Other Art Fair, F*EMS (Females For Equality Making Stuff) Artist Collective

2018: Inner Atmospheres, Perth International Comic Festival

2017: Yogyakarta Biennale, The Comic Art Workshop

2017: Lakes International Comic Art Festival

2017: Indigenous Literacy Foundation Silent Auction, Penguin Random House, North Sydney

2017: National Gallery of Victoria, Australian Zine Showcase at the Melbourne Art Book Fair

2017: GUTTERS Perth Fringe Festival

2016 - 2018: Festival of The Photocopier, Melbourne Town Hall

2015: Museum of Contemporary Art Australia Zine Fair

2015: SUPERGRAPH Melbourne Exhibition Centre

2014: 40x40 Show, Brunswick Street Gallery, Fitzroy, Melbourne

2014: Crafting Pathways screened at the Wellsprings 20th Anniversary, Dandenong, Melbourne

2014: The Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts Postcard Show, St Kilda, Melbourne

2013: Crafting Pathways screened at the End of the Line Festival, Belgrave, Melbourne

2013: Los errores en México screened at the YOU ARE HERE Festival, Canberra

2013: Face to Face: Children’s Stories in the Long Shorts Screening at the Shadow Electric at the Abbotsford Convent

2012: Illuminations, Jitter Festival, Bondi Pavilion, Contemporary Australian Animation

2012: Face to Face: Children’s Stories in the Australian Shorts section of the Human Rights Arts and Film Festival ACMI            

2012: Face to Face: Children’s Stories, Bondi Pavilion Festival Sydney, SOHO Shorts in London and the Human Rights Festival in Melbourne

2011: Face to Face: Children’s Stories, 7th RENDERYARD Film Festival, in La Rioja, Spain, GENERATION NEXT at NOVA Cinema, Melbourne.

2011: RE: http://regarding.com.au/artwork/ a 7 month online gallery project

2010: Reflex – the mechanical poetry of kinetic sculpture, Gaffa Gallery, Sydney CBD

2010: For my sister, Blank Space Gallery, Surry Hills, Sydney

2010: Reflex – the mechanical poetry of kinetic sculpture, M16 Artspace, Fyshwick, Canberra

2010: Akin to, The Front Gallery, Lyneham, Canberra

2008: Tableaux Attic, M16 Artspace, Fyshwick, Canberra

2008: Red Shoes presents: Tableaux Vivants, Peepshow, The Front Galley, Canberra

2007: Nico & Claudette, The Fringe Festival Canberra

2007: Performing Objects and Machines, Carriage Works, Sydney

2006: 25/25: Australia’s top 25 artists aged 25 and under, Art on Bourke, Surry Hills

2006: UrbaNONurban, LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts, Singapore

Solo exhibitions

2015: HEADSHOTS BrunswickArts

2011: Attraction, Red Gallery, North Fitzroy, Melbourne

2008: Drawn, CGS Gallery, Red Hill, Canberra

2007: Can I Kiss You? Photospace Gallery, ANU, Canberra