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E-Mail Address: sarahfortais@gmail.com
Qualifications
2023 Modern COSHH Management
2023 First Aid Training, England
2021 Carbon Literacy Standard, Carbon Literacy Trust, England
2020 Certificate in Understanding Mental Health, The National College, England
2020 Digital Resilience, Educare, London, England
2020 GDPR for Education Level 2, Educare, London, England
2019 IPAF Operator, PASMA, and MEWP Certification
2019 GDPR Training, University College London, England
2018 Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, London, England
2017 DBS Certification
2015 University College London Arena One: Teaching Associate Programme, London, England
Education
2012-2018 PhD Practice-Led, Slade School of Fine Art, London, England
2011-2013 MA Fine Art, Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, England
2007-2011 Bachelors of Fine Art, Honours Specialization Studio Art Program, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada
Solo Exhibitions
2022 Martian Picnic, Chipping Work Shop, London, England
2022 Martian Picnic, Royal Geographical Society, London, England
2018 VIVA Exhibition, Slade School of Fine Art and Slade Research Centre, London, England
2016 Sarah Fortais’ Somewhere Space Program, The Dolls House Gallery, Slade School of Fine Art, London, England
2013-2014 To Make Strange, Art Gallery of Algoma, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario
2013 Sarah Fortais’ Summer Space Program, SU Space, Chelsea College of Art and Design, London, England
2013 The Superdove Project, 272 High Holborn, London, England
2010 ((Remember)) The Youth, Weldon Library, London, Ontario
Group Exhibitions
2024 By the Means at Hand, Vlatka Horvat's project for the Croatian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, Italy
2023-2024 Archive Ad Astra: Objects of Space Enthusiasm, UCL Anthropology Building, London, England; Yuri’s Night, Dockside Vaults, Ivory House, London, England
2021 Coffee Art Project, London Coffee Festival, Old Truman Brewery, London, England
2021 Colour/Collage/Poetry, Slade School of Fine Art (virtual), London England
2019 Ladies and Gentlemen, The Football Has No Claws, Slade School of Fine Art, London, England
2019 Continuum Festival, Allenheads Contemporary Art, Allenheads, England
2019 Kupala 2019: Lunar Edition, Phytology UK, London, England
2019 The Nomenclature of Colours, Slade Research Centre, London, England
2019 Hors Pistes, 14e édition, La lune: Zone Imaginaire à Défendre, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
2017 Past Forward, ArtLab, London, Ontario
2017 Young Gods, Charlie Smith London, England
2016 Constructive Spaces: A VR Exhibition, Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), England
2016 SEEMS, Westbury Arts Centre, Shenley Wood, Milton Keynes, England
2016 Explorers (Chapter 2), Londonewcastle Project Space, London, England
2016 Slade Degree Show, Slade School of Fine Art, London, England
2016 Explorers (Chapter 1), loft 19, Suzanne Tarasieve Gallery, Paris, France
2016 Platform Project 3: Sarah Fortais, Platform Projects, Affordable Art Fair, Battersea Park, London, England
2015 Aether, Showroom, 272 High Holborn, London, England
2015 Capsule, Embassy Tea Gallery, London, England
2015 Made In Arts London, Lethaby Gallery, Central Saint Martins, London, England
2014 Bigger, Brighter, Bolder, Showroom, 272 High Holborn, London, England
2014 Catlin Art Prize 2014, Londonewcastle Project Space, London, England
2014 Immaterial, Slade Research Centre, London, England
2014 Stellar Graduates, Flavel Arts Centre, Dartmouth, England
2013 Rising Stars, Graduate Showcase, Coombe Gallery, Dartmouth, England
2013 Slade Print Fair, Slade Research Centre, Woburn Square, London, England
2013 Re | collections: Performance and Print, Blueprint, 272 High Holborn, London, England
2013 NOVA Awards Showcase, Royal Society of Artists, London, England
2013 SHOW 1, Central Saint Martins, Kings Cross, London, England
2013-2015, 2018 Under New Management / Video Rental Store, ODD Gallery at the Klondike Institute of Art and Culture (KIAC), Dawson City, Yukon; Access Gallery, Vancouver, BC; Galerie Tiers-espace / Third Space Gallery, New Brunswick; The Ecology of an Art Scene Symposium at The Power Plant, Toronto, Ontario; Judith & Norman Alix Art Gallery, Sarnia, Ontario; The New Gallery, Calgary Alberta; Union Gallery, Kingston, Ontario; The New Gallery (TNG), Calgary, Alberta; SAW Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario
2013 Green Week Exhibition, Central Saint Martins, Kings Cross, London, England
2012 On Being Different and the Same at the Same Time, 272 High Holborn, London, England (artist and curator)
2012 Community, Central Saint Martins, Kings Cross, London, England
2012 MA Fine Art Interim Show, May 10-14, V22 Workspace, Tower Bridge/Bermondsey, London, England
2012 Xhibit, touring showcase of University of the Arts London, Central Saint Martins, Kingsgate Studios, Menier Gallery London, England
2011-2012 pARTners collaborative exhibition, Ontario (Woodstock Art Gallery; you me gallery; Japanese Paper Place Gallery; Aurora Cultural Centre; John B. Aird Gallery; Pentimento Fine Art Gallery)
2011 Still Worked, ArtLab, London, Ontario
2011 Those Artists, Alex P. Keaton, London, Ontario
2011 Festival of the Arts, Somerville House, Great Hall, London, Ontario
2011 The Arts Affair, University Community Center, London, Ontario
2011 Die Acustichen Akademie, John Labatt Visual Arts Centre, London, Ontario
2010 Winter/Stasis, ArtLab, London Ontario
2010 Mapping Medievalism on the Canadian Frontier, ArtLab, London, Ontario
2010 The Path to Practicum, ArtLab, London, Ontario
2010 Secret Admirer, Forest City Gallery, London, Ontario
2010 Toy Show, Concourse Gallery, London, Ontario
2010 Annual Juried Exhibition, ArtLab, London, Ontario
2010 London Festival for the Arts, University Community Centre, London, Ontario
2010 Is it too late? –Doug, The Arts Project, London, Ontario
2010 Song Show, Concourse Gallery, London, Ontario
2009 This to that, Concourse Gallery, London, Ontario
2008 Spotlight at the Barking Frog, The Barking Frog, London, Ontario
2007 ArtReach graduating program exhibition, Art Gallery of Algoma, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario
2007 Algoma District Student Art Show, Art Gallery of Algoma, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario
Video Screenings
2019 (with Nikolas Ventourakis) Voyageur, for Christoph Steffner’s exhibition Mobile Urbanity, Akademie der Künste Berlin, Germany
2012 To Make Strange, for the exhibition Performance Voyage 2, Muu Galleria, Helsinki, Finland; Villa Karo, The Finnish-African Cultural Centre, Grand-Popo, Benin, Africa; ONE NIGHT ONLY GALLERY C/O UKS, Lakkegata Oslo, Norway & Vilnius, Lithuania; GALLERY RAJATILA, Hämeenpuisto Tampere, Finland; New Performance Turku festival, Finland; What A Mess! Art Fair, Fredrikstad, Norway
2012 To Make Strange, for the exhibition Unfinished Worlds, Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, England
Performances
2024 Solway Spaceman for Winter Droving 2024, Penrith, England
2022 ASSEMBLY REQUIRED, St. Albans, England
2020 A New Coffee Shop Experience II, Peckham to Kings Cross, London, England
2020 A New Coffee Shop Experience I, Borough Market, London England
2019 Tourist/Explorer, Bloomsbury Festival, London, England
2019 Continuum, as part of Continuum Festival and Kupala Festival, Allenheads and London, England
2019 Voyageur, as part of Hors Pistes, 14e édition, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
2017 Free Cucumbers, Baker Street, London, England
2016 LAM and Sheep, Mutton Shoulder, Milton Keynes, England
2015 LAM and Sheep for Practices in Dialogue: Loss and Creation, Hundred Years Gallery, London, England
2015 Sound Experiments for Spark Festival, Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, London, England
2014 Rocket Launch, Londonewcastle Project Space, London, England
2013 Uniforms for Everyday Rituals, commissioned for 3rd Floor Tate Modern, London, England
2013 Equilibrium, for Neurath’s Boat as part of Curious Festival and the Barbican Creative Learning Series, Chats Palace, London, England
2012 Tourist, a spaceman arriving in London for the 2012 Olympics, Kings Cross, London, England
2010 Radio Video, audio video performance for the show Hide and Seek/Show and Tell, Brennan’s Bistro, London, Ontario
2010 92nd International Conference of Avionics and Suborbital Research, performance of an excerpt from an untitled graphic novel, John Labatt Visual Arts Centre, London, Ontario
Workshops/Events/Teaching
2023 Creating our way through crises: How can the arts and creativity address sustainability and tackle health and environmental inequalities? (in conversation with Harold Offeh and Rochelle Burgess), for Fevers, Frets and Futures: uncertainty & new ecologies for post-Covid healthcare, University College London and hybrid, London England
2023 Artist-In-Residence on a Martian Analogue, presentation for Off-Earth Atlas, University College London, London, England
2022 Artist in Residence presentation and panel member of Communicating Your Discoveries: sharing work, inspiring action, for Explore RGS Expedition and Fieldwork Festival, Royal Geographical Society, London, England
2022 Martian Picnic guided tour of exhibition, Royal Geographical Society, London, England
2022 Sarah Fortais: Artist In Residence on a Mars Analogue, Institute of Advanced Studies, University College London, England
2022 Martian Death Masks and Modified Casting Techniques for Off-World Environments, British Interplanetary Society, London, England
2022 On Dust, for Space: From the Telescope to the Microscope: Space Exploration Meets Medical Discovery, The Curve Lecture Theatre, St. George’s Hospital, London, England
2022- current Tutor for Silicone Mould Making and Jesmonite short courses, London Sculpture Workshop, London, England
2021-2023 Specialist Casting Technician, Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, England
2021 Bricolage, Jesmonite, Silicone, and Coffee, for What We Do lecture series, Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, England
2021 Artist Talk for Drayton Manor High School students, Drayton Manor High School, London, England
2019 Introduction to Sculpture, Tutor and course designer, Slade School of Fine Art, London, England
2019 UCL Donor Wall Launch Event, Wilkins Terrace, London, England
2018 UCL Donor Wall Hand Casting Event, Wilkins Terrace, London, England
2018 Rendering the Invisible Visible, interdisciplinary conference, co-organizer and workshop leader, University College London, England
2018-2019 Widening Participation Summer School, Tutor and course designer, Slade School of Fine Art, London, England
2017 Defining Cool Through A Bricoleur’s Studio Practice, departmental seminar, Slade School of Fine Art, London, England
2016 Slade Salon research presentation for UCL Festival of Culture, London, England
2016 Sunday Sofa Sessions, artist talk at Affordable Art Fair, London, England
2015-2018 BFA2 Critical Studies, Tutor and course designer, Slade School of Fine Art, London, England
2015 Common Ground, LAHP (London Arts and Humanities Partnership) research presentation at Kings College Music Department, London, England
2015 Lunar Salon, designed and hosted at Slade Research Centre, London, England
2015 Against Delivery, EARN (European Artistic Research Network) presenter and session organizer, Slade Research Centre, London, England
2015 Bricolage, departmental seminar, Slade School of Fine Art, London, England
2014 Cool, departmental seminar, Slade School of Fine Art, London, England
2013 Immateriality, FIGS Material Properties research presentation, Slade Research Centre, London, England
2013 Station to Stationery (designed and implemented a collaborative David Bowie portrait-making event), Victoria & Albert Museum, London, England
2012 DIY Instrument and Music Box Making, Menier Gallery, London, England
2012-2013 Academic Representation Supervisor, University of the Arts London, England
2012 Environmental Resource, Habitat for Humanity, Sault Ste. Marie, Canada
2012 Coordinator, Echoes of the World Drum Festival, Sault Ste. Marie, Canada
2011 Home Builder, Habitat for Humanity, Sault Ste. Marie, Canada
2010-2011 President of the Visual Arts Supporters’ Association (VASA) and 4 year executive member, London, Canada
2009-2011 University of Western Ontario, Woodshop Technician, London, Canada
Residencies
2024 Artist’s Spare Room, Eden Arts, Penrith, England
2022-2023 Artist in Residence at the Centre for Outer Space Studies, University College London, England
2016 Westbury Arts Centre Graduate Residency, Milton Keynes, England
2013 Summer Space Program Residency, University of the Arts London, England
2010 (group) Mapping Medievalism on the Canadian Frontier, ArtLab, London, Canada
Select Honours
2020 (awarded with UCL’s OVPA team) CASE Circle of Excellence Bronze Award for the UCL Donor Wall
2017 Shortlisted for Beers London Contemporary Visions 8, England
2016 Kenneth Armitage Sculpture Prize, England
2015 Longlisted for Signature Art Prize 2015, England
2014 Shortlisted for Catlin Prize, England
2014 Selected for the Catlin Guide, England
2013 Shortlisted for Nova Award, Lowe & Partners / Central Saint Martins, London, England
2013 White Square Award, UAL, London, England
2013 Selected for Future 40 program, presented by UAL Students’ Union, England
2012 Shortlisted for Dream Bag Jaguar Shoes solo exhibition, London, England
2011 People’s Choice Award, Rotaryfest, Sault Ste. Marie, Canada
2011 Selected to represent UWO in the BMO 1st Annual Art Competition, Canada
2010 Winner of the Annual Juried Exhibition, UWO, London, Canada
2009-2011 Dean’s List, University of Western Ontario
Select Scholarships/Grants
2018 (awarded with Dawn Gaietto) Octagon Small Grants Scheme, UCL, London, England
2015 Doctoral School Bursary, UCL, London, England
2015 Joint Faculty Institute of Graduate Studies Bursary, UCL, London, England
2014 Jean Spencer & Malcolm Hughes Bursary, Slade, London, England
2013-2017 Overseas Research Scholarship, Slade School of Fine Art, London, England
2011 Margaret Rand Scholarship in Visual Arts, UWO, London, Canada
2011 Richard Ivy Continuing Scholarship in Visual Arts, UWO, London, Canada
2011 Alumni Award, UWO, London, Canada
2010 Tony and Betsy Little Scholarship in Visual Arts, UWO, London, Canada
2010 UWO Bursary for academic merit
2010 UWO Student Levy Fund Grant for equipment
2010 UWO Student Levy Fund Grant for an artist residency
2010 UWO Student Levy Fund Grant for graduating exhibition
2007 Renewable entrance bursary to University of Western Ontario
2007 Millennium Excellence Scholarship
2007 Sault Ste. Marie Excellence in Volunteerism, Ontario