Who is sarah?

2018 Frankie Good Stuff Awards Video Category Winner
Hello
Sarah Firth is an award-winning comic artist, graphic recorder, writer and animator based in Melbourne.
In 2019 Sarah will work on her debut graphic novel thanks to a grant from the Creators Fund program.
Some notable creative achievements have been, in 2006 Sarah was named one of Australia’s top 25 artists aged 25 and under in the 25/25 show by Art & Australia Magazine. In 2007 she received a commission and residency with Carriageworks, followed by a commission from Experimenta Media Arts in 2010.
In 2012 she was awarded the Talking Difference Fellowship at the Immigration Museum, and her animated documentary won a People’s Choice Award in the Human Rights Arts and Film Festival. In 2017 she was in the Yogyakarta Biennale in Indonesia, the Lakes International Comic Festival in the UK and the Ubud Writers and Readers Festival.
In 2018 she received a Frankie Magazine Good Stuff Award, was a finalist in the Incinerator Art Award for Social Change, and her graphic essay on complexity was listed in The Conversation's ten of the best literary comics in Australia. She was also appointed deputy chair on the board of directors for the Cultural Development Network.
Over the years she has created a fat stack of self-published comics and will soon appear in anthologies with Abrams Books, Picador, Allen & Unwin and Affirm Press.
For all enquiries contact me here.
Some of my clients
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Writing
2018
2017
Endings & Beginnings MAQTOOB for Entrepreneurs
2016
No One Does Anything Alone Local Story Space

To be a graphic recorder you need to be great at listening

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
ThINK on the page - Side Project Sessions
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
2017
Ubud Writers Festival Indonesia
Read To Me at the Jogjakarta Biennale
Read To Me - Drawing Voice
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
Beyond 100: Children's Views ACT Gov
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
Sounds experimental animation
Guitar Hands experimental film
Mother experimental animation
2008 - 2010
ALIGN experimental animation
SELF experimental animation
Hana Mizu experimental animation
Y-Fronts in the Wind experimental film

Talking art and money on the Starving Artist Podcast
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
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
Go Goldfields graphic recordings and site
The Impossible Wall Kill Your Darlings
2016
Treaty Consultation Results Aboriginal VIC
Treaty Consultation NITV
Wodonga 2023 Plan Wodonga Council
2015
An Inkpot of Fate Tasmanian Writers and Festival
Resilient Melbourne Strategy
Review Tasmanian Writers Festival
Unpacking The Money Shot Spook Mag
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 awards, Grants, commissions and residencies
2018: Grant from the Creators Fund program for the research and development of a graphic novel.
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