Sarah holds a Bachelor of Education in Visual Arts and a Post Graduate Diploma in Art Curatorship from the University of Melbourne. She works at Museum Victoria as Manager of the Discovery Program. This role involves providing access to the museum's collections for those people who can't visit the museum for reasons that include age, distance, hospitalisation and imprisonment.

Sarah began her career as an art teacher which led to a variety of work within museums and galleries including assisting in the Publications Department at the National Gallery of London, restoring Roman ruins in France, and lecturing in Museum Studies at Deakin University.

The initial inspiration for Sarah's boxes came while collecting fossils for Museum Victoria's research collection. Her collecting prompted the production of boxes in keeping with the 16th Century collectors and their Wunderkammer - Cabinets of Wonder.

Although her subject matter has moved away from the scientific to the personal, her motivation continues to be based in the power of the object to trigger memory and reconnect us with the past. Conceptually poetic and exquisitely constructed, Sarah's work continues to gather a loyal following.

Qualifications
1981-84 Bachelor of Education in Visual Arts, University of Melbourne
1990 Post-graduate Diploma in Art Curatorship, University of Melbourne

Exhibitions

2009 Royal Exhibition Buildings Melbourne, ART MELBOURNE 09
2005 'Southside Arts', Hon. John Thwiaites Offices, Treasury Place.
'Art & Soul', Anne Middleton Gallery
2005 'The Collector's Show' Albert Park Gallery
2005 'Emerge' Albert Park Gallery
2004 'The Inner Landscape' Albert Park Gallery
2004 'Colour' Albert Park Gallery

Artist Statement
"I am fascinated by the capacity of an object to connect us with the past. My art work incorporates objects presented in the form of small memory boxes. These objects, both historical and scientific, are combined with words drawn from literature, in particular the poetry of the Romantics and Shakespeare. I present these in the form of small memory boxes. This visual expression was initially motivated while collecting fossils for Museum Victoria's research collection. I realised how little I knew about these objects and began reading on palaeontology which prompted the production of boxes in keeping with the 16th Century collectors and their Wunderkammer. My subject matter is scientific, historical and personal, based on the power of the object to trigger memory and reconnect us with the past. My memory boxes contain objects that evoke curiosity and represent the hidden and unconscious. The objects are chosen for their symbolic content. "