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Knill-Jones

Sarah Knill-Jones was brought up in Scotland and studied at the Glasgow School of Art, sha obtained her MA in Fine Arts from the University of the Arts, London. Her work explores the human figure and its propensity for the monstrous, as well as the power of abstract gesture to create visceral responses to the world. Inspired by the relationship between the soul and the environment (natural and political), she explores expressive links between matter and the human body across various media.

Disciplines: Painting

Materials: Acrylic, Monoprint, Oil, Paper, Pencil, Watercolour

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Sarah Knill-Jones was brought up in Scotland and studied at the Glasgow School of Art, sha obtained her MA in Fine Arts from the University of the Arts, London. Her work explores the human figure and its propensity for the monstrous, as well as the power of abstract gesture to create visceral responses to the world. Inspired by the relationship between the soul and the environment (natural and political), she explores expressive links between matter and the human body across various media.

Previous Experience

Education 2010 MA CAMBERWELL COLLEGE OF ART (London, UK) 2009 PgDip BYAM SHAW SCHOOL OF ART (London UK) 1991 BA GLASGOW SCHOOL OF ART Solo Exhibitions : Shifting Selves, IESA Gallery, Paris 2023; The (Dis-)appearing Woman, Museum of Modern Art, Baku, Azerbaijan, 2015; 2010 Perceptions, MiM Centre of Contemporary Art, Azerbaijan, 2008. Selected Group Exhibitions: 2026 The Thrill is Gone, Brief Shalimar, Espace Française, Paris; 1,2 trois, ciel, Espace Julio, Paris; Liturgie Chimérique, Tectum Anima, Paris; Toutes les Choses Qu’Elles Portent, Galerie des Photographes, Paris; 2025 The Thread that Pulls, VAS Royal Scottish Academy; Dérive(s) Rift at Poush, Aubervilliers; This Year’s Model III, Studio 1.1 London; 2024 Drawing at the Arctic Circle, Gallleri Napa, Rovaniemi Finland; Quand la chrysalide s’éveille, Galerie Dauphine/Brownstone Foundation, Paris; 2023 Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize, London; 2022 Dreams & Visions, Art Forum, Lahore, Pakistan; A Cable I Have No Knife to Cut, Poush FR

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