Sarah Douglas
Sarah has combined a career as a professional artist together with ones in art and design consultancy, art criticism, academia and the strategic management and production of creative projects. It is her nature is to synthesise and connect, and all of her work involves moving and communicating between different sectors – her skill is in spotting the points of intersection and creating something unique out of them. She gets a buzz out of making things happen and relishes the challenge of a new project or idea.
What has she done?
Sarah completed an MA in Painting at the Royal College of Art, London and was selected by Art Review Magazine as one of the UK’s top 25 art graduates. Her work has been widely exhibited and is held in several high profile collections. In addition to her artistic practice, Sarah is involved with a number of enterprises and activities within the fields of art and design.
The art consultancy she founded in 2005, Exhibit?K, has been the subject of articles in the Observer Magazine, The Times, Harper’s Bazaar and The Art Newspaper, and her views on art have been featured on Bloomberg News and BBC One. Exhibit-K provides insider knowledge to individuals, corporations and public sector organisations looking to engage with interesting and challenging contemporary art and design.
Sarah is passionate about the role of the arts in society and their ability to challenge, inspire and hold a mirror up to contemporary culture.
She’s committed to education and regularly lectures at several UK universities. She’s a consultant to the Royal College of Art’s Innovation and Entrepreneurship department where she programmes and delivers thought leadership events aimed at engaging academia and industry.
Sarah’s current strategic projects include:
- Working with an excellent team to design and deliver a thought leadership programme and series of ‘inspiration’ workshops for senior designers and strategists in London and Korea.
- Producing an exhibition exploring approaches to Futures with a London Product Design agency
- Advising on strategy for a consortium of creative businesses in the Netherlands.
- Working in collaboration on a book on objecthood with a production agency.
- Continuing artistic practice.
Awards and Associations
- Associate Lecturer in Fine Art at City & Guilds of London Art School
- Consultant at InnovationRCA
- Associate at Wonderbird consultancy
- Consultant at Car Design Research Ltd
- Editorial Board member of Turps Banana Painting Magazine
- Founding member of ‘Art Girls’, a forum and contemporary art foundation for women working in the arts
Ask Sarah about..
- Anything to do with the visual arts
- Structuring and steering through complex problems
- Idea generation
- A fresh perspective and an alternative approach
- Translating between sectors
- How to inspire people with you message, project or venture
- Giving talks and lectures, and chairing discussions
- Strategy
- Getting things started and making things happen
- Connecting the dots (and people)
- Local experience versus wider context
- Analogies
- Food