Sarah Grant is currently studying on the MA Painting at Manchester Metropolitan University. She has returned to live in the North of England after spending twenty years working as an artist and art therapist in Glasgow.

Her recent work shows a return to landscape and a more immediate, liquid style which she uses to explore psychological space in painting.

Sarah Grant is originally from Leeds and graduated in Drawing and Painting at Glasgow School of Art in 2000. Since then she has exhibited regularly as a member of Glasgow Independent Studios, Trongate 103 Arts Centre. Sarah Grant's paintings are small in scale and she creates work in series which form part of a bigger narrative.

Her recent series 'Uncovered Streets' was created under the 2020/21 Lockdown and reflects the appearance of empty streets, as imagined through the classic motif of the American road trip. Her paintings are uninhabited places, carrying a sense of tension but often featuring still, open skies and a sense of quiet reflection. The images are painted in a muted palette and have a timeless feel, like images in a dream, film or childhood memory.

Monochrome (2018/19) looked at the home as a metaphor for our individual sense of self. The architecture could be European or American but each image has a quiet, self contained feel like a frontier town or isolated homestead.

Sarah has a Masters in Art Therapy and worked as a fully qualified Art Therapist for the NHS in Mental Health and Addictions. She was the Creative Lead for the Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival in Renfrewshire for the last 6 years. She has also worked as an arts lecturer for Glasgow Clyde College and for various community arts organisations such as Artlink Central, Impact Arts and Project Ability.

Devotion
29/09/2023- 15/10/2023
Group show, painting
The FG Gallery
Goostrey

Leeds Summer Group Show
22/07/2023-08/09/2023
West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds

Art Car Boot Sale
24/06/2023
Patricia Fleming Gallery and SWG3 Warehouse, Glasgow

John Moores Painting Prize
Shortlisted
20/05/2023

In/Tangible
12/04/2023- 14/04/2023
Pink Gallery, SeeSaw Workspace, Manchester

From the Big Splash to the Last Splash
15/03/2023- 09/04/2023
Group show
Terrace Gallery, London

Strata/Thought Lines
02/09/2022- 15/09/2022
@G20 Artist Collective
The Alchemy Experiment, Glasgow

Round the corner, down the stairs
07/04/2022- 15/04/2022
PS Mirabel
@PaintingWriting 

Reverb
18/03/2022- 29/04/2022
Selected for Visual Arts Scotland's Annual Exhibition 2022