Lecturer
School of Arts and Humanities
Sarah Jacques is Lecturer of Fine Art and first year (level 4) tutor at UCS. She has been a practising artist for twenty years and her work crosses over printmaking, painting media as well as site-specific interventions.
After being awarded a first class BA (Hons) in Fine Art at the University of East London, she went on to an MA in Fine Art at The Royal College of Art, London. There she won several awards, including The Daler-Rowney Award and a travel Scholarship to Baroda University, India.
Sarah has a broad knowledge and understanding of Fine Art education and pedagogy at undergraduate level informed by postgraduate training at Goldsmiths College, University of London and as a British Sign Language Interpreter.
Her understanding of contemporary art has been founded on discussions with tutors including Rachel Whiteread, Philip King, Anthony Caro, Tony Cragg, Richard Wentworth, Helen Chadwick and Eduardo Paolozzi.
Sarah has made and exhibited work nationally and internationally as artist in residence at Chelsea and Kensington College, India Gutjaret and visiting artist at The Pratt Institute, New York.
She says that ‘Art is not about social conformity, it is about questioning the essence of our existence and expressing that visually.’ Through her practice-based research in painting, print and intervention, she examines the contemporary female voice and notions of service in relation to traditional domestic imagery, such as still life painting.
Her temporary interventions such as A Life Like This at Tate Britain challenge institutionalisation and audience reception. By creating an intervention, however transient, she causes a change, a reaction, by her hand and possibly a change in someone’s thinking and her own.