Sarah-Cate Blake
Sarah-Cate Blake studied as a sculptor specialising in bronze and steel in the inspiring studios set in the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, where artists in residence offer teaching and included Andy Goldsworthy, Peter Randall-Page, Sophie Ryder and David Morris. Based in Cambridge Sarah-Cate develops her art practice in ink, acrylic, watercolour, gold leaf, mixed media and in ceramic and wood.
With a concern for meditative landscape.
Sky Sea Light Mountain
Breath Thought Being Transition
Landscapes and the composite elements of an environment are a formative part of her practice with an emersion into this essential energy. Sitting, walking and spending time exploring a particular location is part of this extended understanding. Constantly referring and having an acknowledgment of the psychology of how one begins being in that place, the act of being & doing. Sarah-Cate takes mindful walks along coast paths, wood trails, hill tops when she is travelling, having an awareness of the micro as well as the macro landscapes, mosses, lichen, leaves as well as the bigger ‘stuff’.
Sarah-Cate has an interest in East Asia both as an artist and as a museums specialist; she has worked at The British Museum, London and is currently at the Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge.
After many years studying East Arts techniques in 2018 she travelled through Honshu, Japan. Here she visited museums, galleries, temples and gardens passing through the Japan Alps and along the Japan Sea, creating a detailed journal and sketchbooks that form an ongoing body of landscape paintings in ink and gold leaf. She researches the art of Japan and paints using traditional Japanese brushes, ink, watercolour pigments, gold leaf, and papers and explores meditative calligraphic traditions. Most recently she is working in clay and returning to her sculptural practices to explore a simple act of Suru (through) and Baransu (Balance) transforming found materials to incorporate into her ceramic forms. Sarah-Cate is returning to Japan in November 2019 to further develop her practice.
ZEN, 2019 Ink and Gold leaf.
“No need to fill the space, allow room for breathe and thought”
Courses and study:
Ceramics, Hills Road College, Cambridge 2018 – ongoing
Woodblock printing, Toyoko, Japan 2018
Etching Course Dekkle Studio Baldock April 2016
Intaglio Course, Curwen Print Studios Sept 2012
Booking Making Curwen Print Studio May 2010
MA, University of London 2002-2004
Post Graduate Diploma, Sheffield 1989-1990
BA hons Fine Art, Leeds University 1985-1988
Foundation Art, Cambridge School of Art 1983-1984
Exhibitions
1999-2019
Open Studio, Cambridge
June-July 2019
6×6, Rochester Gallery, New York USA
Jan-Feb 2019
‘AWASH’, Handa Gallery, Society of East Anglian Watercolourist, North Norfolk.
Nov-Dec 2018
Sleep, VoegeleKulture, Zurich Switzerland group installation curated by Susan Aldsworth.
Nov 2018
GO! Landscape painting,The Makers’ Gallery Cambridge.
May 2018
Summer exhibition, Great Bardfield, Essex.
May 2018
‘Respond’, @Stir Cambridge, a group show connected by the Fitzwilliam Museum
Dec 2018
Art on a Postcard, Art Car Booty, London
March 2018
Art on a Postcard, The Other Art Fair , London
2018
VQ Chitsu series, Birmingham Women’s Hospital.
2017
Art on a Postcard, #Artonapostcard crowd fundraiser
Art on a Postcard, #Artonaplectrum crowd fundraiser
‘The Dark Self’ , St Mary’s York, installation curator Susan Aldsworth
2016-2017
‘Arising’, Reykjavik Museum, Iceland. Curator, Yoko Ono
2014
Magog Down, Cambridge Art Festival
2013
13, Babylon Gallery, Ely
15, Romsey Art Salon, Cambridge
2009
Open East, Kings Lynne Arts Centre
Selected landscapes, Whittlesford Art Gallery
2007
Dawn-Dusk Seascapes, Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge
‘Yellow Monkey’, paintings and poetry publication
2005
‘Made’, Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology Cambridge University
2003
3, St Edmunds Bury Cathedral
2000
Selected show, Suisho Gallery, Cambridge
1999
Cambridge Artists Heffers, Cambridge
Perpetual, Addenbrookes, Cambridge
1998
Bronze, Suisho Gallery,
1994
Perpetual, Festival of Women’s Photographers, Eastern Region
1989
Selected prints, Cambridge Business Arts
Seven, Cambridge School of Art
1988
Degree Show, Bretton Hall College, West Yorkshire.
Summer Show, Gallery on the Cam.
Women in Print Trumpington Art Gallery, Cambridge
Publications
Blake and Hastings. (2007), Yellow Monkey, Handmade Press
Lever, R. (ed.) (1995), The West in Her Eye. England, Pyramid Press
Lever, R. (ed.) (1996), In Her Mind’s Eye. England, Pyramid Press
Pateman, K. (ed.) (1995), Personnel Announcements. England, Poetry Now
White, S. (ed.) (1996), And God Created Woman. England, Aural Images
Projects
2020
Illuminating the Self, Newcastle, curator Susan Aldworth, Central St Martin’s Art College
2019
ARISE, YOKO ONO, Anglia Ruskin Gallery Cambridge.
2018
Sleep, VoegeleKulture, Zurich Switzerland, curator Susan Aldworth, Central St Martin’s Art College
2018
The Dark Self, St. Mary’s York, curator Susan Aldworth, Central St Martin’s Art College
2016
ARISE, YOKO ONO, Reykjavik Museum, Iceland.
Collections
Corporate: Owen Bond Architect Partnership, Norwich
Corporate: Birmingham Women’s Hospital
Corporate: Create, Cambridge.
Corporate: Cambridge City Council.
Private: Count De Masse, Vineyard Moulin de Breuil, France;
Private: Illinois, USA
Private collections: France, Britain, Switzerland, USA.