Talent Sarah Misselbrook

Channels:

Art, Body, Photography, and Film

Genres:

Alternative Photography, Contemporary, Digital Art, Documentary, Installation, Minimalism, Mixed Media, Performance Art

Roles:

Artist, Sculptor, Video Artist, Painter

Specialties:

sculpture, body casting, drawing, photography and film

Hometown:

Southampton (UK)

My name is Sarah Misselbrook, born 1977 in Southampton, England. I studied at Nottingham Trent University and received a first class honours degree in Fine Art. At Portsmouth School of Art, the foundation year saw the beginning of my multi media practice surrounding such issues as the body, the artist and consumption.

My work is a way of exorcising something from myself, which is very emotional, maybe troubled. I become a subject who produces that which is visible. It is my silent, non-verbal response.

My practice involves digital photography, the manipulation of my body using this process, documentation of hair growth and removal, cleansing, grooming, this relentless self surveillance and obedience.

There are a multiplicity of socio-cultural concerns about femininity and feminism, about the body, about individual control and consumption within a consumer society. Food is the medium through which women are addressed, in turn; food has become the language of women’s response.

Whether a morbid curiosity or a therapeutic exercise, this ‘body’ of work is an insight into myself. Self mind; not image.

Misselbrook’s practice involves digital photography, sculpture, casting, and drawing. Her 3D works are a play on traditional sculptural concerns, the process of adding or taking away. However, this is not achieved using stone or wood but chocolate or soap, degradable or even edible materials which underline the transient state of the body. The final works show the seductive yet repellent nature of human anatomy. They embody ways of externalising a very internalised self-analysis of the body personal.

2007: Cyprus College of Art, Cyprus: Post Graduate Diploma in Fine Art
2004: University of Southampton, UK: Post Graduate Certificate in Education (PCET)
2001: Itchen College, Southampton UK: A/S Psychology
2000: Nottingham Trent University, UK BA (Hons) Fine Art
1997: Portsmouth School of Art & Design, UK Diploma Foundation Studies Art & Design

Commissions and Residencies:
2002: Sep/Jun 05 - Associate Lecturer Art & Design, Southampton City College, UK
2003: July - Artist residency at Southampton Saab producing installation, UK
2003: May - Appearing as special guest artist at Beatrice Royal Gallery for Lee Peck Greenfield corporate event, interview and liaising with public, UK
2002/03: Sep/June - Transitional Classes for A2 students @ Barton Peveril College, UK 2002: July - Commissioned artwork with ‘out of school’ learning group at Oakland’s Community School, UK
2001: Dec/Jan 02 - Casting workshops and digital photography tuition for physically disabled clients and clients with learning disabilities at the Hexagon Centre, Southampton, UK
2002: Feb - Conceptual Self-portrait Drawing workshop @ St Anne’s School Southampton, UK
2001: Feb Life Drawing workshops for 16 to 18 year olds @ St Anne’s School Southampton, UK
2001: Jan - 'Arts Festival' @ Sholing School Southampton including commissioned artwork and installation as permanent sculpture within the school, UK

Coming Soon: 2007: Sep - La Viande, London, 'ela,ela', UK (group)
2007: June – Langstone Gate, Havant 'resurgence', UK (group)
2007: May/June – Cyprus College Of Art , Pafos 'ela,ela', Cyprus (group)
2007: May – Idrima Panicos Mavrellis , Lemesos 'ela,ela', Cyprus (group)
2006: Dec/Jan 07 – Cyprus College of Art , Pafos 'Christmas show', Cyprus (group)
2006: May/Jul 06 – Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton '1m2', UK (solo)
2006: May/Jul 06 – The Bargate Monumen, Southampton 'Affirmation', UK (solo)
2005: Dec/Feb 06 – Havant Arts Centre, Havant 'Sarah Misselbrook', UK (solo)
2004: Dec/Jan – Michael Naimski Gallery, London End of Year Show, UK (group)
2004: Nov/Dec – a space, Southampton 'Human’, UK (group)
2004: Aug/Nov – ArtVaults, Southampton 'Absolution’, UK (solo installation)
2004: Feb/Mar – One Tree Gallery, Petersfield 'The Body’, UK (group)
2004: Jan/Feb – a space, Southampton 'Mind Consuming Body’, UK (solo)
2003: Nov/Jan 04 – Southampton City Gallery 'Self Portrait', UK (group)
2003: Oct/Nov – Michael Naimski Gallery, London, UK (solo)
2003: May/Jun – Beatrice Royal Gallery, Eastleigh 'FEAST YOUR EYES', UK (solo)
2002: May – Art Fair, London (group)
2001: Feb/Mar – Beatrice Royal Gallery, Eastleigh 'Conceptual Interiors' (group)
2000: Jun – Nottingham Trent University, 'Sweeet FA' Degree Show (group)
1999: Jun/Aug – Bargate Shopping Centre, Southampton 'Exposure' (solo)
1999: Apr/May – temporary gallery space, Nottingham (group)
1998: Nov – Nottingham 'Igloo Arts' (group)
1997: Jun – Portsmouth School of Art and Design (group)

sculpture, body casting, drawing, photography and film