- RLB1A, Roland Levinsky Building, Drake Circus, Plymouth, Devon, PL4 8AA
- +44 1752 585038
- sarah.chapman@plymouth.ac.uk
Profiles
Dr Sarah Chapman
Director of Peninsula Arts
Peninsula Arts (Faculty of Arts & Humanities)
Role
Director of Peninsula Arts
Qualifications
MA Sequential Design, Brighton University, 2002
BA Hons (first class) Design Arts, Plymouth University, 1997
Roles on external bodies
Pymouth Visual Arts Consortium (PVAC), Director, 2011-2015
Member of Visual Arts Plymouth, 2014-to date
Plymouth International Book Festival Management Board, 2013-to date
Visual Arts South West (VASW), Mentor, 2014-2015
National Aquarium Limited, Trustee, 2015
Teaching interests
Research interests
- The history and the continued development of public art galleries / collections associated with Universities
- Exhibition interpretation and how to enrich the experience and understanding of contemporary art for a diverse audience
- Arts management - curation - adapting to a new funding climate
- Critical cultural writing / reviews and commentary
- Book design - magazine design - the artist book
- Drawing - the line in space - graphic intervention - early 20th Century through to the present
- Artists who alter the photograph through graphic means
- Found photographs
Other research
2014-2015 TFAS award (teaching fellowship): Teaching and Learning in the Peninsula Arts Gallery
2012-2013: Public Arts as Extra-Cirricula Learning
A TFAS award that examines the beneficial role public arts can play within the student learning experience (both formal and informally) across a range of art and science disciplines.
Creative practice & artistic projects
2012 - 2013 Executive Producer www.mobydickbigread.com
- Moby-Dick Big Read on tour, featuring in Aquatopia at Nottingham Contemporary (20 July - 22 September) and TATE St Ives (October 2013 - January 2014).
Curated Exhibitions
2012 Knowledge Museum Kit and News After News joint exhibition featuring Dan and Lia Perjovschi (Peninsula Arts Gallery, November - December 2012 ).
2010 Ben Hartley: A retrospective, Co-curated by Bernard Samuels and Sarah Chapman, featuring paintings, drawings and never before exhibited journals and notebooks (Peninsula Arts Gallery, November - December 2010).
2009 (re)sounding signs: Polish Chopin Posters 1955-2006, Co-curator. Featuring posters from 1950's to the present day, including Henryk Tomaszewski, the Wroclaw Four group, Rafal Olbinski and Waldemar Swierzy. Part of the Plymouth Polish Festival and in partnership with the Museum Frydereyka Chopina, Warsaw with the support of Adam Mickiewicz Institute (March - April 2009).
2008 Art & Insects, an exhibition featuring over 20 national and international artists inspired by insects. Supported by the Royal Entomological Society (Cube3 Gallery, Plymouth University, September-October 2008).
2008 Beryl Cook 1926-2008, A Retrospective. Co-curated by Jess Wilder and Sarah Chapman, (Peninsula Arts Gallery, November - December 2008).
Chapter's / Catalogues
2014 "Peter Randall-Page in conversation with Sarah Chapman" in Peter Randall-Page: Drawings (Plymouth, University of Plymouth Press), 5-9.
2013 "University Galleries and public art programs within the UK" in Exhibiting Photography: A Practical Guide to Displaying Your Work (Oxford: Focal Press), 124-127.
2012 Introduction to Dominion: A Whale Symposium, ed Angela Cockayne and Philip Hoare, (Bath: Wunderkammer Press, January 2012) p 18-20.
2011 "What Can University Galleries Offer?" in Cabinet: Changing Perceptions, ed P Quinn, (Plymouth University Press), 20-21.
2008 Beryl Cook:1926-2008, ed Jess Wilder and Sarah Chapman, (Plymouth University Press). Alongside curating the first major retrospective of Beryl Cook's work in the Peninsula Arts Gallery, following her death, the publication brought together academics and critical commentators who questioned and examined the division between the huge popularity of Cook's work and the art establishment's resistance in recognising her success whilst she was alive.
Art Direction / Design
2012 Author and Art Direction: Crowley, D., Dan & Lia Perjovschi, The Art of Marginalia (Plymouth University Press).
2009 - 2012 Art Direction and Design: Twenty Romanian Writer series (Plymouth University Press).
2007 - 2011 Art Direction and Design: Short Fiction, series 1-5 (Plymouth University Press).
Conference Papers
2014 Winter J, Chapman S, & Treasure J, 'Contemporary Art as Extra-curricular Learning: Lessons from a University Art Gallery', The International Journal of Arts Education
2013 Winter J & Chapman S 'Public Arts as extra-curricular learning' Vice Chancellor's Conference on Teaching and learning. Plymouth University, UK 28/06/2013
2013 Winter J & Chapman S 'Public Arts as Extra Curricular Learning' The 8th International Conference on the Arts in Society. Budapest, Hungary 24/06/2013
Other academic activities
2013 Awarded two Vice-Chancellor's Enterprise Award's as part of the Moby-Dick Big Read team and the Plymouth International Book Festival team.
2012 Peninsula Arts team shortlisted for a Vice-Chancellor's Enterprise Award for Creative Initiative. Recognising the success and impact of bringing the British Art Show 7 to Plymouth, working in conjunction with the Hayward Gallery and as a leading member of the Plymouth Visual Arts Consortium, supported by Plymouth City Council and Arts Council England, Peninsula Arts co-delivered the 7th British Art Show 'In the Days of the Comet' for the final leg of its year-long country wide tour. BAS7 ran for three months across five venues throughout the City including the Peninsula Arts Gallery. As a high profile major contemporary arts event 74,790 visits were made to the city wide exhibition, providing access to contemporary arts to the local and regional audiences, including specifically focused opportunities for 67 Schools to connect directly with the work, academics and students of the University.
2011 Shortlisted for Times Higher Education Award, Excellence and Innovation in the Arts, Peninsula Arts Contemporary Music Festival
2009 Awarded a Vice-Chancellor's Enterprise Award for International Engagement. Paul Honeywill, Anthony Caleshu, Sarah Chapman & Simon Ible, University of Plymouth Press and Peninsula Arts.
Additional information
Active Partnerships
The River Tamar Project (2013 - 2015)
The Plymouth International Book Festival (2012 - 2015)
Programming partnership with Plymouth City Museum & Art Gallery (2013 - 2017)