Sarah Jane Moon is a painter who specialises in portraiture and figurative painting. Her work explores identity, sexuality and gender presentation as well as interrogating formal painterly concerns. She has exhibited with the Royal Society of Portrait Painters, Royal Institute of Oil Painters, New English Art Club and the New Zealand Portrait Gallery among others. In 2015 she was awarded the Arts Charitable Trust Award and in 2013 the Bulldog Bursary for Portraiture. Sarah Jane features in the documentary film ‘She Is Juiced’ (directed by Lois Norman) which premiered this year at the Tate Britain. She has also been included in the 2016 Pride Power List, which celebrates the achievements of notable LGBT people and is a regular supporter of Stonewall UK, Terrence Higgins Trust and Pride in London.
In 2017 Sarah Jane will be showing work in London and working towards a significant show of new work with two other LGBTQI female artists. Originally from New Zealand, Sarah Jane has lived in Japan, Malaysia, Australia and UK working in education and the arts. She has qualifications in Art Theory and Curatorial Practice from Universities in NZ and Australia as well in Portrait Painting from The Heatherley School of Fine Arts in Chelsea. Sarah Jane teaches actively at The Heatherley School of Fine Art, The Art Academy and The New School of Art as well as running specialist classes abroad.
E D U C A T I O N :
2009 - 2011
Diploma in Portrait Painting
The Heatherley School of Fine Art, London, UK
2006 - 2007
BA (Hons) Visual Arts Theory
University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
2000 - 2003
BA - Art History, English Literature, Japanese
Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
A W A R D S :
2016
Pride Power List
2015
Arts Club Charitable Trust Award, NEAC Annual Exhibition
2013
Royal Society of Portrait Painters’ Bulldog Bursary
2011
Royal Society of Portrait Painters Commendation
Royal Society of British Sculptors Commendation
2010
Mr Heatherley Summer Figure Composition Prize
2003
Woolf Graduation Prize for Excellence in Art History
E X H I B I T I O N S :
2017
GFEST Exhibition
Menier Gallery, London, UK
Queer Art(ists) Now Exhibition
Archive Gallery, London, UK
The Art of Reading Exhibition
The Heatherley School of Fine Art, London, UK
In Your Face Exhibition
Salisbury Arts Centre, Salisbury, UK
Love Happens Here Pride Exhibition
18 Broadwick St, London, UK
‘She Is Juiced’ Film Premier
Tate Britain, London, UK
Portrait Exhibition
Candid Gallery, London, UK
The Heatherley School of Fine Art Staff Exhibition
Bankside Gallery, London, UK
2016
Beyond Margins Exhibition
Menier Gallery, London, UK
The Art of Reading Exhibition
Waterstones Gower St, London, UK
Art For Youth Annual Exhibition
Mall Galleries, London, UK
ASC Summer Exhibition
ASC Gallery, London, UK
Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Exhibition
Mall Galleries, London, UK
Adam Portraiture Award Exhibition
NZ Portrait Gallery, New Zealand
12@Menier
Menier Gallery, London, UK
2015
The Royal Institute of Oil Painters Annual Exhibition
Mall Galleries, London, UK
The Contemporary Portrait
Thompson’s Galleries, London, UK
The Ruth Borchard Self Portrait Prize Exhibition
Piano Nobile, London, UK
New English Art Club Annual Exhibition
Mall Galleries, London, UK
Through My Eyes
Gibberd Gallery, Harlow, UK
The Lots Road Group Annual Exhibition
Chelsea Old Town Hall, London, UK
Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Exhibition
Mall Galleries, London, UK
Inside Portraits Exhibition
Mall Galleries, London, UK
The Molly Morpeth Canaday Art Awards
Te Koputu a te whanga a Toi, Whakatane, New Zealand
2014
The New English Art Club Annual Exhibition
Mall Galleries, London, UK
Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Exhibition
Mall Galleries, London, UK
The Lynn Painter Stainers Prize Exhibition
Mall Galleries, London, UK
Motherhood (The Lots Road Group)
The Chelsea Old Town Hall, London, UK
2013
The Heatherley Print + Ceramics Exhibition
The Heatherley School of Fine Art, London, UK
Portraits
5th Base Gallery, 23 Heneage St, London, UK
2012
Portraits at The Place
The Place, London, UK
2011
Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Exhibition
Mall Galleries, London, UK
T E A C H I N G :
The Heatherley School of Fine Art
London, UK
The Art Academy
London, UK
The New School of Art
Sussex & London, UK
Cotegrange,
France
C O L L E C T I O N S :
2016
Wallace Arts Trust
P U B L I C A T I O N S :
2017
Make A Mark, Barry Bliss
Sarah-Jane Moon cv // 18/11/2017
