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About Artist

Sara Lee’s images are a response to the ephemeral nature of landscape and our profound relationship with it. The expanse of the landscape has no bearing to assess distance. Each is a desert of infinity where one is pulled into the nuance of surface.

Lee predominantly works with drawing and print, including pastel and woodblock in the ukiyo-e tradition. Her practice involves working from site-specific landscapes, followed by extended studio-based work.

Selected Collections UK; Victoria and Albert Museum, London: Golder-Thompson Collection;Swindon Museum and Gallery Collection; Otter Gallery, University of Chichester Collection; Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, International: United Thrapeutics Art Collection, USA; Tarma Univ. Collection, Tokyo, Japan.

Born in Wales in 1956, Sara Lee studied Fine Art at Ravensbourne and Print at Central School of Art. She lives and works in London. She was co- founder of Print Centre Publications, working alongside master printmaker Hugh Stoneman on projects by seminal British artists including Terry Frost, Ian McKeever and Eileen Cooper. She continues to work with Cooper through the imprint Blackbird Editions.

Selected Artworks

News

Sara lee will be launching a new print at the LOPF21 1–8 May  – ‘Distant Domain’ is a Japanese woodcut of the early morning sky in a limited edition of 25

Exhibitions

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019
Beckoning Lines, Rabley Gallery, Rabley Drawing Centre, UK
2014
Ley of the Land, Rabley Gallery, Rabley Drawing Centre, UK

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2020
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London
Rabley Summer Exhibition
2019
London Original Print Fair, Rabley Gallery, Royal Academy of Arts, London
London Art Fair with Rabley Gallery, London
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London

2018
Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize, (formerly Jerwood Drawing Prize) London
(Touring UK)
Flourish Award, WYPW, Yorkshire; PR1, Preston; Spike Island, Bristol
National Original Print Show, London
Japan, WYPW, Mirfield, Yorkshire
Bainbridge Open, Turps Gallery, London
House, RDS, Dublin with Stoney Road Press
London Original Print Fair, Rabley Gallery, Royal Academy of Arts, London
London Art Fair with Rabley Gallery, London
Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, London
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London

2017
Ink Miami, Rabley Gallery, USA
DUO, Rabley Gallery, London & Marlborough
Cut – Contemporary Woodcut, Glasgow Print Studio, Glasgow
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London
26, Eames Gallery, London
Tama Collection, Touring Exhibition, Sapporo, Japan
Discovering Samuel Palmer, Eames Gallery, London
London Original Print Fair, Rabley Gallery, Royal Academy of Arts, London
London Art Fair with Rabley Gallery, London

2016
Ink Miami, Rabley Gallery, USA
ISOLA, Sara Lee, Pru Ainslie & Meryl Setchell Ainslie, Rabley Gallery, Rabley Drawing Centre
Towards Night, Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne
Surface Cutting, Royal Academy of Arts, London
Neo Print Prize, Bolton
West Dean College, Chichester
London Original Print Fair, Rabley Gallery, Royal Academy of Arts, London
London Art Fair with Rabley Gallery, London

2015
Ink Miami, Rabley Gallery, USA
Eames Gallery, London
National Original Print Exhibition, Bankside, London
The Sketchbook Today, Avenue Gallery, University of Northampton (Tate Albums feature)
Arthub Open, London (Prizewinner)
Tokyo Triennial, Tama, Tokyo
Pages in Siglufjörður, Herhúsið, Iceland
London Original Print Fair, Rabley Gallery, Royal Academy of Arts, London
London Art Fair with Rabley Gallery, London

2014
Lustre, Rabley Gallery, Rabley Drawing Centre, UK
Trace – Artists In Search of a Landscape – APT Gallery, London
Neo Print Prize, Bolton
Pushing Print 5 Yrs On, Pie Factory, Margate
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
London Original Print Fair, Rabley Gallery, Royal Academy of Arts, London
London Art Fair, Rabley Gallery, London
Escape, Printroom. London
Multiplied, Rabley Gallery, London

2013
Offline Art Fair with Works on Paper, London
Pushing Print, Margate. (Prizewinner – Bainbridge Prize)
Brook Gallery, Budleigh Salterton, Devon
Experiments with Photography, PhotoIreland, Stoney Road, Dublin.
Contemporary Print, Bainbridge Open, London
The London Print Fair with Stoney Road Press, Dublin
Multiplied, Rabley Gallery, London
The Biscuit Factory, Newcastle
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
London Original Print Fair, Rabley Gallery, Royal Academy of Arts, London
London Art Fair, Rabley Gallery, London

2012
Multiplied, Rabley Gallery, London
Bite, Mall Galleries, London
Peninsula, Stoneman Gallery, Penzance (solo show)
British Printmaking, Kyoto, Japan
Drawn To Nature, Rabley Drawing Centre, Marlborough
Brook Gallery, Budleigh Salterton
The Landscape of Memory, No Format Gallery, London

2011
Print Now, Bearspace, London
Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London
Bainbridge Open, London
Bite, Mall Galleries, London
Print, Stoneman Gallery, Penzance
Japanese Print Show, Brook Gallery, Dorset

2010
Stoneman Gallery, Penzance
Originals, Mall Galleries, London. (Prizewinner)
2009 Confluence, Stoneman Gallery, Penzance
Confluence, APT Gallery, London

Residencies
2018 Rajasthan – Rabley Travel Residency
2015, Venice, Rabley Travel Residency
2014 Alayrac Artists Residency
2013- 2014 Rabley Drawing Centre, Artist In Residence , Wiltshire. UK
2011 – 2012 Brisons Veor – Cornwall

Public Exhibitions
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition (2019, 2018,2017,2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007
2016, Surface Cutting, Royal Academy, London
2016, Towards Night, Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne

Public Collections
Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK; Golder Thompson Collection, Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, UK; Tama University Collection, Tokyo, Japan; Swindon Museum & Gallery, Modern Art Collection,UK; The Bishop Otter Collection, University of Chichester, UK; Evelina Collection Guys & St Thomas’ UK; United Therapeutics Art Collection, USA

Awards
Flourish Award shortlist – 2018
Prizewinner – Arthub 2015
Bainbridge Prize – Pushing Print 2013
Intaglio Printmaker Award – Originals 2010