Sarah Kate Wilson

Sarah Kate Wilson is an artist living and working in London, she completed her MFA in Painting at the Slade School of Fine Art in 2010, and received her practise-based PhD from the University of Leeds in 2017.

She has staged performances at major international arts institutions (in collaboration with Musarc); Palais de Tokyo (Paris) for the DO DISTURB Festival 2017, Royal Academy of Arts (2018), Museum of London (2016). Exhibitions include ‘Iris’, a solo project exhibited at Baltic39, Newcastle, (2016), ‘Not Painting’, Copperfield Gallery, London (2021), ‘Is the Image Even Human?’, New Dehli (2023). She Curated ‘Painting in Time’ which toured from Tetley, Leeds (2016) to the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA (2016) and included, artists Yoko Ono, Polly Apfelbaum, Lisa Milroy, Hayley Tompkins.

In 2019, during a residency at the Bauhaus, Dessau, Germany, her research focused on the Stage Curriculum as she developed her own performances, costumes and scores. She is Artist in Residence at West Dean College, Chichester, working within their archive of Surrealist artworks, where she is producing a ‘ballet’ on the subject of animal mimicry. Having received funding from Arts Council England, she is developing a set to ‘house’ her works in-between moments of live activation when costumed performers move her artworks.

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