Curriculum Vitae
Sarah Quayle
BA(hons) Fine Art
Sarah Quayle
BA (Hons) Fine Art

Education 1992-1996 Gray's School of Art, Aberdeen
1995 Ecole Nationale Superieure d'Art, Paris.
Exhibitions 2004 WASPS Open Weekend, Edinburgh
2003 Christmas Exhibition, The Old Fire Engine House, Ely, Cambridgeshire.
2002 Christmas Exhibition, The Old Fire Engine House, Ely, Cambridgeshire
WASPS Open Weekend, Edinburgh
'The Patchwork', Solo Exhibition, The Old Fire Engine House, Ely, Cambridgeshire
2001 Christmas Exhibition, The Old Fire Engine House, Ely, Cambridgeshire
2000 Christmas Paintings Exhibition, Helensburgh Arts, Argyll and Bute.
‘The Heath’, The Old Fire Engine House, Ely, Cambridgeshire
‘The Story Telling’, Solo Exhibition, The Old Fire Engine House, Ely, Cambridgeshire
1999 Artlink Exhibition, A Group Exhibition Organised by Artlink, Edinburgh
1998 Solo exhibition of drawings and paintings, The Queens Hall, Edinburgh
‘Story Unfolding’, Solo Exhibition, Netherbow Centre, Edinburgh.
1996 Six-person exhibition, Lomond Studio, Helensburgh.
New Graduate Exhibition, Collin's Gallery, Glasgow
Grays School of Art Degree Show, Aberdeen.
Aberdeen Artist's Exhibition, Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen

I am interested in how events, places and people form our experiences and shape who we are as people. Memories and symbols arise from how we perceive the world around us.
I tend to work in two ways. Firstly, I try to capture images in my life – the places, people and objects I come across. The resulting paintings tend to be simpler and more representative but I see them as a ‘freeze-frame’ of my experience.
Secondly, I attempt to interweave these images into the backgrounds and fabrics of my paintings to bring a richness and depth into the images and to develop a story. I combine memories (my own and those of others) with imagined situations and draw from a personal inventory of symbolic images. Thus the composition evolves. My subject matter is essentially personal so my intention is not to tell these stories directly, but to try and engage the attention of the viewers and to accept their own interpretations.
The patchwork paintings also explore ideas of personhood. Everyone has their own story. As we make decisions and choices in life, we sew together a patchwork of experiences and memories which make us who we are. The patterns and sequences of patches that we have sewn, influence new decisions in life and our relationships with others. The process is continual. Our direction in life transacts with the person who we are.