CV & Contact

sarah.cooney@network.rca.ac.uk

b. 1982 Stockton-on-Tees, UK

 

EDUCATION

2006-2008

MA Painting, Royal College of Art, London

2002-2005

BA (hons) Fine Art, Northumbria University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne

 

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2022

A Generous Space 2, The New Art Gallery Walsall, UK

To the Studio (curated by Daniella Norton), Gallery DODO, Brighton, UK

2021 

Your Foot in My Face and Other Tectonic Strategies (Organised by Dan Howard-Birt), Kingsgate Project Space, London, UK

2019

Legacy: 50 Years of Painting in the Tees Valley, The Auxiliary Middlesbrough

Creekside Open (Selected by Brian Griffiths), APT Gallery, London, UK

2018

Beep Painting Prize, Exhibition, Swansea College of Art, Wales

Stockton Contemporary, Stockton-on-Tees

2017

Colour Code, Cupola Contemporary Art, Sheffield, UK

Middlesbrough Art Weekender, Middlesbrough, UK

2016

Tell Her Story, Crown Street Art Gallery, Darlington, UK

Making a Scene (a collaboration with Cristina Cojanu), NN Contemporary Art Project Space, Northampton, UK

2015

Mud, Oil and Plastic, Mother Studios Project Space, London, UK

2014

The Trouble with Painting Today (curated by Hannah Conroy), Pump House Gallery, London, UK

2013

Painting Parade, LeanndaKateLouise, London

Copy (curated by Sarah Kate Wilson), Paper Gallery, Manchester, UK

2012

Hackney WickED Open Studios, Mother Studios, London

2011

Dialogues’ 10th International Biennial of Contemporary ArtThe Central Exhibition Hall ‘Manege’, St Petersburg, Russia

2011

GALERIA REGRESSO, Memorial do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil

Republic, Red Room, Rose & Crown, London, UK

2010

Nothing Gold Can Stay (curated by Nina Trivedi), 3YE Project Space, London

Watch This Space Young & Emerging Artists AuctionSpecial Yoga Centre, London, UK

HaTS Berlin,  Smartloft Apartments and Art, Berlin, Germany

2009

Pale blue and green (two person show with Jess Flood-Paddock), Permanent Gallery, Brighton, UK

Bankrobber, Red Room, Rose & Crown, London, UK

Pretty Deep (inside your head), The Royal Standard, Liverpool, UK

2008

Winter Salon, Temple Bar Gallery and studios, Dublin, Ireland

Rapunzel Rapunzel, Shoreditch Town Hall, London, UK

Pentimenti, Permanent Gallery, London

The Show Part One, Royal College of Art, London, UK

2006

SpentThree Colts Gallery, London, UK

 

RESIDENCIES

2009/10

Smartloft Apartments, Berlin, Germany

2006

Taigh Chearsabhagh Museum and Arts Centre, North UIST

 

AWARDS/PRIZES

2016

Studio Bursary, Navigator North, Middlesbrough

2011

Shortlisted for Abbey Fellowship, British School at Rome

2008

Hugh Dunn Award, Worshipful Company of Painter-Stainers/Royal College of Art

2006

Greater London Area NAFDAS Bursary Award

2005

Graduate Fellowship in Painting, Northumbria University

2005

John Crisp Memorial Painting Prize

 

PUBLICATIONS

2010

Fringe MK Painting Prize Catalogue (selected by Stephen Snoddy, Anthony Spira, Andy Harper, Sally Annett)

 

TALKS AND LECTURES

2019

Paint Hard organised by Creative Factory, Northern School of Art, Middlesbrough

2017

Panel discussion for ‘Conversations in Painting’, Platform A Gallery, Middlesbrough

2009

Panel discussion, The Royal Standard, Liverpool

2008

Visiting Artist Lecture, Glasgow School of Art

PROJECTS

2019

Conversations in Painting: Fiesta MK2 (ACE funded)

2017

Conversations in Painting: if it fits in the Fiesta you’re in (ACE funded)

2013

Devonshires: Developing Artists, with Wallspace in the Workplace, London

COLLECTIONS

Middlesbrough Collection held at MIMA, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art