Sarah Pickering
Sarah Pickering (born 1972) is a British visual artist working with photography[1] and related media including 3D scanning and digital rendering, performance,[2] appropriated objects and print. Her artist statement says she is interested in "fakes, tests, hierarchy, sci-fi, explosions, photography and gunfire."[3] She is based in London.
Pickering's book Explosions, Fires and Public Order was published by Aperture in 2010. She has had solo exhibitions at Meessen De Clercq, Brussels (2009),[4] Ffotogallery, Wales (2009),[5] Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago (MoCP, 2010),[6] and Durham Art Gallery (2013);[7] and was included in Manifesta 11 in Zurich (2016).[8] Her work is held in the collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; MoCP, Chicago, IL; and North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC.
She is a part-time Associate Professor in fine art media at the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London.[9][10]
Life and work[edit]
Pickering was born and raised in Durham, England, and attended Belmont Comprehensive School and Durham Sixth Form Centre.[11] After a foundation course in art and design at Newcastle College (1991–1992), she was awarded a BA (Hons.) in photographic studies at the University of Derby (1992–1995), and a MA in photography at the Royal College of Art (2003–2005).[12][13]
Her artist statement says she is interested in "fakes, tests, hierarchy, sci-fi, explosions, photography and gunfire."[3]
Based in London, she is a part-time teaching fellow in fine art media at the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London.[9][10]
"Match, 2015", was a 38 metre long public artwork installed at Castlegate Shopping Centre, Stockton-on-Tees between 2016 and 2017.[14][15]
Publications[edit]
Books by Pickering[edit]
- Sarah Pickering - Explosions, Fires and Public Order. Aperture, 2010. ISBN 978-1597111232.
Publications with contributions by Pickering[edit]
- Vitamin Ph, A survey of Contemporary Photography. Phaidon, 2006. ISBN 9780714856421.
- System Error: War is a Force that Gives us Meaning. Italy: Silvana, 2007. ISBN 9788836608423. Edited by L. Fusi and N. Mohaiemen.
- How We Are Photographing Britain from the 1840s to the present. London: Tate, 2007. ISBN 9781854377142. Edited by Val Williams and Susan Bright.
- In our World, New Photography in Britain. 2008. Milan: Skira. ISBN 9788861305434. Edited by Filippo Maggia. Pickering's contribution is on pages 142–151.
- Foam Album 08. Amsterdam: Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam, 2008. ISBN 9789490022013.
- New Light: Jerwood Photography Awards 2003–08. Edinburgh: Portfolio Magazine, 2009. ISBN 978-0-9520608-4-0. With a foreword by Roanne Dods, an essay by Martin Barnes, and an afterword by Gloria Chalmers.
- Theatres of the Real. Antwerp: Fotomuseum Antwerp; Brighton: Photoworks, 2009. ISBN 9781903796269.
- Realtà Manipolate/Manipulating Reality. Alias, 2009. ISBN 9788896532041.
- C International Photo Magazine 09. London: Ivorypress, 2009. ISBN 9780955961335.
- Bruit De Fond/Background Noise. Je Suis une Bande de Jeunes, 2010. ISBN 9782953350616.
- Afterwards: Contemporary Photography Confronting the Past. London: Thames & Hudson, 2011. ISBN 9780500543986. Edited by Nathalie Herschdorfer.
- Public Relations. SAFLE Commission, 2012. ISBN 9780950820163.
- Hijacked III: Australia / United Kingdom. Cottesloe, WA: Big City; Heidelberg: Kehrer, 2012. ISBN 9783868282856. Exhibition catalogue.
- The Photographer's Playbook: 307 Assignments and Ideas. New York: Aperture, 2014. ISBN 978-1-59711-247-5. Edited by Gregory Halpern and Jason Fulford.
- Staging Disorder. London: Black Dog Publishing, 2015. ISBN 9781910433157. Edited by Christopher Stewart and Esther Teichmann.
- Revelations. London: Mack, 2015. Edited by Ben Burbridge. ISBN 9781907946455.
Awards[edit]
- 2005: Worshipful Company of Painter-Stainers Photography Prize, Royal College of Art.[16]
- 2005: The Photographers' Gallery Graduate Award, London.[17]
- 2005: Jerwood Photography Award, for Public Order. Other winners were Daniel Gustav Cramer, Nina Mangalanayagam, Oliver Parker, and Luke Stephenson.[18][19]
- 2008: Peter S. Reed Award, Peter S. Reed Foundation, USA.[20]
- 2015: Refocus: the Castlegate mima Photography Prize, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (mima) and Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council. A commission to produce "Match, 2015".[21][22]
Exhibitions[edit]
Solo exhibitions[edit]
- Fire Scene, Daniel Cooney Fine Art, New York City, 2008.[23]
- Explosion, Meessen De Clercq, Brussels, 2009.[4]
- Holding Fire, Ffotogallery, Wales, 2009.[5]
- Incident Control, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL, 2010.[6]
- Aim & Fire, included Celestial Objects and other works, Durham Art Gallery, Durham, England. Part of The Social: Encountering Photography festival, 2013, for which Celestial Objects was commissioned.[7][24]
Group exhibitions[edit]
- Part of East International festival, Norwich, UK, 2005. Selected by Gustav Metzger.[25]
- How We Are: Photographing Britain from the 1840s to the Present, Tate Britain, London, 2007. Curated by Val Williams and Susan Bright.[26]
- 'Theatres of the Real' – Contemporary British Post-Documentary Photography, Fotomuseum Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium, 2009. Curated by David Green and Joanna Lowry.[27]
- Manipulating Reality: How Images Redefine the World, Centro di Cultura Contemporanea Strozzina, Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy, 2009/10.[28]
- Signs of a Struggle: Photography in the Wake of Postmodernism, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 2011.[29][30] Curated by Marta Weiss.
- An Orchestrated Vision: The Theater of Contemporary Photography, Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO, 2012.[31][32][33]
- Living in the Ruins of the Twentieth Century, UTS Gallery, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia, 2013.[34][35]
- Revelations: Experiments in Photography, Media Space, Science Museum, London, 2015;[36] National Media Museum, Bradford, 2015/16.[37] Co-curated by Greg Hobson and Ben Burbridge.
- Professions Performing in Art, Manifesta 11, Zurich, 2016. Curated by Christian Jankowski and Francesca Gavin.[8]
Collections[edit]
Pickering's work is held in the following permanent collections:
- Victoria and Albert Museum, London: 2 prints[38][39]
- Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL: 2 prints[40][41]
- North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC: 3 prints[42][43][44]
- LACMA, Los Angeles, USA: 1print[45]
- Brooklyn Museum: 1 print[46]
References[edit]
- ^ Davies, Lucy (25 August 2010). "Sarah Pickering". The Daily Telegraph. London. Retrieved 6 April 2017.
- ^ "Sarah Pickering - Pickpocket - A free Professional Development Workshop for Artists". Manifesta. 10 June 2016. Archived from the original on 12 January 2019. Retrieved 7 April 2017.
- ^ a b Pickering, Sarah. "Bio". Retrieved 18 April 2017.
- ^ a b "Sarah Pickering: Explosion: March 6, 2009 - April 11, 2009". Meessen De Clercq. 2009. Archived from the original on 20 April 2017. Retrieved 17 April 2017.
- ^ a b "Exhibitions: Sarah Pickering – Holding Fire: May 9 - Jun 20 2009". Ffoto Gallery. 2009. Archived from the original on 20 April 2017. Retrieved 17 April 2017.
- ^ a b "Sarah Pickering: Incident Control: Apr 9 — Jun 20, 2010". Museum of Contemporary Photography. Accessed 6 April 2017
- ^ a b "Photographers' artwork putting city in the picture". Sunderland Echo. Sunderland. 17 October 2013. Archived from the original on 20 April 2017. Retrieved 8 April 2017.
- ^ a b "Professions Performing in Art". Manifesta. 2016. Archived from the original on 20 April 2017. Retrieved 7 April 2017.
- ^ a b "Ms Sarah Pickering: Teaching Fellow". Slade School of Fine Art. Accessed 6 April 2017
- ^ a b https://www.ucl.ac.uk/slade/people/academic/spick01/"People > All Staff". Slade School of Fine Art. 3 July 2023
- ^ Thompson, Fiona (13 November 2013). "Sarah's Exhibition Hits the Mark". Sunderland Echo. Sunderland. Retrieved 8 April 2017.
- ^ Sarah Pickering (2010). Sarah Pickering - Explosions, Fires and Public Order. Aperture Foundation. p. 121. ISBN 978-1597111232.
- ^ "Locate: A Jerwood Encounters exhibition: Curated by Sarah Williams". Jerwood Foundation. Accessed 18 April 2017
- ^ Webber, Chris (30 May 2015). "A heavenly match made in Stockton to be displayed in new work of art". Darlington: The Northern Echo. Retrieved 7 April 2017.
- ^ Sampson, Lindsey (29 May 2015). "Student's 38-metre friction match artwork to take pride of place in Stockton". Middlesbrough: Teesside Gazette. Retrieved 7 April 2017.
- ^ Filippo Maggia, ed. (2008). In our World, New Photography in Britain. Skira. p. 143. ISBN 9788861305434.
- ^ "Sarah Pickering Wins The Photographers' Gallery Graduate Award". The Photographers' Gallery, 13 June 2005. Accessed 7 April 2017
- ^ "Jerwood Photography Award 2005". Jerwood Charitable Foundation. Accessed 7 April 2017
- ^ Judd, Terri (18 November 2005). "Photographers take a view on hot political issues". The Independent. London. Retrieved 7 April 2017.
- ^ "List of Individual grant recipients by year - 2008". Peter S. Reed Foundation. Archived from the original on 8 April 2017. Retrieved 7 April 2017.
- ^ "Match, 2015". Refocus. Retrieved 7 April 2017.
- ^ "Teesside University lecturer recreates famous John Walker match". Teesside University. 16 June 2015. Retrieved 7 April 2017.
- ^ Gopnik, Blake (15 January 2006). "Up in Smoke: An Explosive Approach to Art". The Washington Post. Washington, D.C. Retrieved 7 April 2017.
- ^ Padley, Gemma (1 November 2013). "New photography festival takes over Northeast England". British Journal of Photography. Retrieved 17 April 2017.
- ^ "East International 2005: Sarah Pickering". East International, Norwich University of the Arts. Retrieved 17 April 2017.
- ^ "We are here: Photographing Britain", Tate, 1 May 2007. Accessed 17 April 2017.
- ^ "'Theatres of the Real' – Contemporary British Post-Documentary Photography". Fotomuseum Antwerp. 2009. Archived from the original on 17 May 2017. Retrieved 17 April 2017.
- ^ "Manipulating Reality: How Images Redefine the World". Centro di Cultura Contemporanea Strozzina. Retrieved 17 April 2017.
- ^ Ward, Ossian (20 August 2011). "Signs of a Struggle, V&A, London". The Independent. London. Retrieved 7 April 2017.
- ^ "Signs of a Struggle: V&A - review". London: London Evening Standard. 16 August 2011. Retrieved 7 April 2017.
- ^ "An Orchestrated Vision: The Theater of Contemporary Photography: February 19–May 13, 2012". Saint Louis Art Museum. Archived from the original on 16 October 2017. Retrieved 17 April 2017.
- ^ Richard B. Woodward (17 April 2012). "Walls Come Tumbling Down". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 17 April 2017.
- ^ Beall, Dickson (29 February 2012). ""An Orchestrated Vision": Saint Louis Art Museum debuts exhibit of contemporary photography". Webster-Kirkwood Times. Retrieved 17 April 2017.
- ^ "Living In The Ruins Of The Twentieth Century: A vision of the twentieth century as a history of false starts, misbegotten technologies and missing utopias". University of Technology, Sydney. Retrieved 17 April 2017.
- ^ "Living in the Ruins of the Twentieth Century". Living in the Ruins. Archived from the original on 14 March 2016. Retrieved 17 April 2017.
- ^ "Revelations: Experiments in Photography". Science Museum. Media Space. January 2015. Archived from the original on 3 April 2017. Retrieved 7 April 2017.
- ^ "Revelations: Experiments in Photography". National Science and Media Museum. Retrieved 1 May 2020.
- ^ "White Goods | Pickering, Sarah". Victoria and Albert Museum. Retrieved 8 May 2022.
- ^ "John Adams, Museum Collection. Salted paper Print circa 1852-60. Unknown Photographer | Sarah Pickering". Victoria and Albert Museum. Retrieved 8 May 2022.
- ^ "Landmine". Museum of Contemporary Photography. Accessed 7 April 2017
- ^ "Dining Room". Museum of Contemporary Photography. Accessed 17 April 2017
- ^ "Cigarette". North Carolina Museum of Art. 11 March 2021. Retrieved 8 May 2022.
- ^ "Large Maroon". North Carolina Museum of Art. 11 March 2021. Retrieved 8 May 2022.
- ^ "Shellburst Day". North Carolina Museum of Art. 11 March 2021. Retrieved 8 May 2022.
- ^ Packard, Cassie (7 October 2021). "LACMA and the Brooklyn Museum Will Share 200 Photographs by European Women Artists". Hyperallergic. Retrieved 3 July 2023.
- ^ LACMA, Press Release (30 September 2021). "EXHIBITION Advisory Exhibition: In the Now: Gender and Nation in Europe, Selections from the Sir Mark Fehrs Haukohl Photography Collection On View: November 14, 2021–February 13, 2022 Location: Resnick Pavilion" (PDF). LACMA.org. Retrieved 3 July 2023.
External links[edit]
- Official website
- Video interview from 2010 in which Susan Bright gives an introduction to Pickering, who talks about her Public Order series
- Video interviews about making the "Match, 2015" commission for Refocus: the Castlegate mima Photography Prize
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- 21st-century British women photographers
- Photographers from London
- 21st-century English women
- 21st-century English people