Statement

I am an interdisciplinary artist working across drawing, animation, painting, sculpture and multimedia. My practice explores the ways identity is constructed through imitation, storytelling and popular culture.

Throughout my work I have been interested in the moments when people try to become someone else: the child pretending to be a pop star, the teenager creating an online persona, the fan recreating the gestures of an idol, or the performer inhabiting another person’s identity. These acts of transformation reveal how imagination, aspiration and belonging shape our sense of self.

I often combine imagery from celebrity culture, folklore, childhood memories and popular mythology. Forgotten performers, legendary creatures, obsolete technologies and everyday objects become starting points for exploring how stories attach themselves to people and things over time. My more recent work has focused on performers from early twentieth-century Music Hall, exploring how public personas are created, remembered and transformed through performance, costume and storytelling.

Using deliberately handmade processes and familiar materials, I create works that sit between the personal and the cultural, the real and the imagined. My practice considers how we preserve memories, construct identities and create alternative worlds through the objects, images and stories that surround us.



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Biography

Sarah Doyle has presented solo exhibitions including The Nexus Treatment at Space Station Sixty-Five Gallery, London, Celebrated Sobriquets aka Always Known As at The Surgery, London, and Feel Pop = Feel Rich in association with Surface 2 Air and And A, Tokyo.

Her work has been exhibited at venues including Transition Gallery, Jerwood Space, Whitechapel Gallery, Ferreira Projects, Elevator Gallery and The Cinema Museum, with exhibitions in Japan, Ireland, Germany, Italy and the USA.

Her work has been featured in publications including Elle, Rubbish and Arty Magazine. In 2002 she received the Artist Award in the New Artist category at the Elle Style Awards.

Sarah studied Fine Art at Manchester Metropolitan University and completed an MA in Communication Design at Central Saint Martins, London.



Education

2000-03
MA Communication Design, Central Saint Martins College of Art, London

1995-99
BA Hons, Interactive Arts, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester

1994-95
BTEC Foundation Art, Jacob Kramer College of Art and Design, Leeds

Prizes & Awards

2014
Winner of Lucky Dip Art Competition, Camberwell Arts Week, UK

2002
Winner of Artist Award, Elle Style Awards, Elle Magazine UK

Selected solo exhibitions

2007
The Nexus Treatment, Space Station Sixty-Five Gallery, London, UK

2006
Celebrated Sobriquets aka Always Known As, The Surgery, London, UK

2004
Feel Pop = Feel Rich, in association with Surface 2 Air, And A, Tokyo, Japan
Self Portraits as Popstars, Jerwood Space Art Wall Café, London, UK

2003
Lyrical Cru, in association with Photomonth, Today Is Boring, London

2002
Purestarproducts, Tatty Devine, London, UK

Selected group exhibitions

2026
Compound Notions, Art Hub Studios CIC, New Cross, London, UK

2025
Blusher: Art, Makeup, Materiality, Leicester Gallery, Leicester, UK

2024
The Tipping Point: Shapers, Bell House, Dulwich, London, UK

2023
Its Showtime, Camberwell Arts Festival, London, UK

Mind Your Head Art Cabaret: Wildflower Whoopee!, Moorings Sociable Club, Thamesmead, UK

2022
Sea Creatures! A Mind Your Head Seaside Special (Live Art Cabaret), Zuzushii Art Laboratory, Hastings, UK 

2021
Hydracity - Towards Watery Commons, Thames-Side Studios Gallery, London, UK

2020
Picture Palace, Transition Gallery, London, UK
Mind Your Head: Wild To Be Born, The Golden Anchor, Nunhead, London, UK

2019
Minuscule Venice, Fondamenta Sant’ Anna, Venice, Italy
Minuscule 2, Cross Lane Projects, Kendal, Cumbria, UK
Four Legs Good Two Legs Bad, Q Park, Whitcomb Street, London, UK

2018
The Ghost Tide, Thameside Studios Gallery, London, UK
Protocol, Q Park, Cavendish Square, London, UK
The Original Chutney Spa, Camberwell Arts Week, Camberwell Green, London, UK
Digital Graffiti, Alys Beach, Florida, USA

2017
The Crash, Q Park, Cavendish Square, London, UK
#51%RememberHer, Tower Gallery, Memorial Community Church, London, UK
Le Coq Artistes, Q Park, Whitcomb Street, London, UK

2016
Uncanny World Of Interiors, Six Caroline Place, Plymouth, UK
Animating Lordship Lane, Mrs Robinson, Lordship Lane, London, UK
Milton’s Cottage Garden, Milton’s Cottage, Buckinghamshire, UK
Following In Father’s Footsteps Premier at Organoke, St Giles Church, London, UK
The Names, Transition Gallery, London, UK

2015
London, New York, Paris, Munich, A Side B Side Gallery, London, UK
The Fall Of The Rebel Angels, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
Chinese Open – Year Of The Sheep, Q Park, Soho, London, UK

2014
The Hollow – We Could Not Agree, Q Park, Cavendish Square, London, UK
Marvellous Mix-Ups X1, Loud and Western Building, London, UK
Ghost Hosting Camberwell Film Festival , St Giles Church Crypt, London, UK
Chinese Open – Year Of The Horse, Q Park, London, UK

2013
The Dream Machine, Transition Gallery at Sluice Art Fair, London, UK
Big Deal No.5, Q Park, London, UK
Harry Pye’s South London Salon – Deptford X, London, UK
Palace of Varieties, The Cinema Museum, London, UK
I Love You Because, A Side B Side Gallery, London, UK

2012
Banner Commission - Camberwell Arts Week, Camberwell Green, UK
Chutney Preserves 6 - Camberwell Arts Week, Camberwell Green, UK

2011
Strip, Transition Gallery at Sluice Art Fair, South Molton Lane, London, UK
Ghost CLHub, The B&B Project Space, Folkestone, UK

2010
Mixtapes: Popular Music in Contemporary Art, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Ireland
Resort, The Residence, London, UK
Chutney Preserves 4 - Camberwell Arts Week, Camberwell Green, UK
P.S I Love You, Bradford Playhouse, Bradford, UK

2009
Ghost II, St John on Bethnal Green, London, UK
Kiss Of A Lifetime, Rogue Artists' Project Space, Manchester, UK
Too Much Is Not Enough, Transition Gallery, London, UK

2008
Abigail’s Arty, Crimes Town, London, UK
AWOPBOPALOOBOP, Transition Gallery, London, UK
Irregular Pulse, Ferreira Projects, London, UK
My Magic Life, Sartorial Contemporary Art, London, UK
Faith, Gallery Primo Alonso, London, UK
Suburbia, The Foreign Press Association, London, UK
Real Life, Portman Gallery, London, UK
Dead Bodies and Cardboard, Elevator Gallery, London, UK

2007
Blanc Noir, Transition Gallery, London, UK
Faith, Crossley Gallery, Dean Clough, Halifax, UK
O Dreamland, Transition Gallery visits Greatstone, Kent, UK
Driven, Fieldgate Gallery, London, UK
Whitechapel Late Nights, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
Upset the Rhythm Text-based Show, Nog Gallery, London, UK
Feel Good Feel Bad Boys and Girls, Lange Gasse 28, Augsburg, Germany
So Sad, Guy Hilton Gallery, 35 Fournier Street, London, UK

2006
For Peel, No More Grey Gallery, London, UK
42, Three Colts Gallery, London, UK
Through The Large Glass, Three Colts Gallery, London, UK
Blink, Gasworks Gallery, London, UK
Monstrous Tales, APT Gallery, London
Kitson Kaleidoscope, Kitson Road, London, UK, UK
Splashdown, Whitstable Biennale, Kent, UK
Obsolete Technology, Here Gallery, Bristol, UK
Paperworld, Transition Gallery, London, UK
The Circus Show, Three Colts Gallery, London, UK

2005
Acid Drops and Sugar Candy, Transition Gallery and Foster Art Gallery, London, UK
Night On Earth, Oh! Art Gallery, London, UK

2004
Remote Control, Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham, UK
State of Independence, Ilex Works, London, UK
Heraldic Pomp, Repellent Festival, Brooklyn Fireproof Gallery, New York, USA
Love’n’Bullets, Transition Gallery, London, UK

2003
Reduced, Century Gallery, London, UK
Feast, A Vision In Art Showcase, The Miller’s House, London, UK
Fanclub, Rosy Wilde Gallery, London, UK
Jerwood Drawing Prize 03, touring exhibition starting in Jerwood Space, London, UK
Xhibit 03, The London Institute Gallery, Mayfair, London, UK
Come On You Intellectuals!, Deptford X, London, UK

2002
London Biennale, 291 Gallery, 291 Hackney Road, London, UK

Publications

2007
I Can’t Believe How Great I Feel, book collaboration with author Amy Prior

2005
Helping You Find The Right Jewellery, Self Published Book

2004
Arty Greatest Hits, Visual Report on Frieze Art Fair 04 from Sarah Doyle, Published by Transition Editions

2004
This Is A Magazine, Compendium 3., Produced by K. Donnachie / A. Simionato

2003
This Is A Magazine, Compendium 2., Produced by K. Donnachie / A. Simionato
The Jerwood Drawing Prize Catalogue, Jerwood Foundation

Press & Features

2007
Michon, A., The Celebrated Crystalline World Of Sarah Doyle, The Critical Friend, No 6, Winter

2006
Miss Amp, Teenage Dreams So Hard To Beat, Plan B Magazine, Issue 14, September

2005
Pawson, M., Sarah Doyle’s Helping You Find The Right Jewellery, Variant Magazine Issue 24, Winter

2004
Fudge Magazine, Sarah Doyle Artist, (Japan), July
Lomax, C., Michon, A., Sarah Doyle, Artist Interview, Arty Magazine, Girls Issue, February
Clark R., Remote Control Exhibition Preview, Guardian Guide, 10–16 July
Luetzow G., Radar London Art/Fashion, Radar magazine (Germany), March

2003
Ryusey, Sarah Doyle, Art On Pop, Exposure (London/Tokyo), Vol. 32

2002
Fisher, A., Callender, C., Farry, E., Matheou, D., Haynes, L., Elle Style Awards, Elle Party, Elle Magazine UK, November
J Dyson, Hot Art, Arty Pants, Elle Magazine UK, June

Residencies

2007
I Love Peckham Shop Windows, LLC Nails, Peckham High Street, London, UK

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