Sarah Tracton is a multi-disciplinary 2D and 3D artist. An award-winning filmmaker, Sarah is a recent BFA graduate in Ceramics at the National Art School, East Sydney.
In the final year of her BFA, Sarah refined a technique of of building architectural porcelain slabs from pouring wet porcelain slip onto a smooth plaster surface. Marbled chromatic landscape panorama coloured surfaces akin to landscape topography are the result. Each piece is unique, with vast variations in coloured surface patterns.
Sarah is a selected craftsperson for Window Walk at Gorman's The Strand store in August 2018, (Shop T33, Drivers Lane, 250 Elizabeth Street) in Melbourne as part of Craft Cubed, Australia's largest festival of the handmade.
SOLO EXHIBITION
2018 Hearing it for Silence, St Heliers Street Gallery, Abbotsford Convent
GROUP EXHIBITION
2018 Crosspoint Perceptions, Testing Grounds
2016 Small Works, Group Show, Project 504
Ephemeral Nature, Group Show, Gallery Klei
2015 Tools & Containers, National Art School, Stairwell Gallery.
2008 24 Hour Monitor Exhibition, NT Museum of Contemporary Art
AWARDS & FELLOWSHIPS
2018 Macquarie Group Emerging Artist Prize - Finalist
Klytie Pate Award and Exhibition - Finalist
2017 Connected Art Prize, No Vacancy Gallery Melbourne - Finalist
ACMD Acquisitive Art Prize - Finalist
Victorian Craft Awards - Finalist
Contemporary Art Awards - Finalist
Kylie Platt Award and Exhibition - Finalist
2016 Creative Fellowship - State Library of Victoria
Australia Council for the Arts Skills and Development Artist Grant
Contemporary Art Awards - Finalist
Make It Award, MakerSpace Sydney - Finalist
North Queensland Ceramics Prize - Finalist
2015 Australian Association of Ceramics Prize for 3rd Year - National Art School
Kenneth W Tribe Scholarship
2011 Australian representative for the JENESYS (Japan- East Asia Network of Exchange
for Students & Youths) East Asia Future Leaders Program in Social Welfare, Japan Foundation
2009 Churchill Fellowship Award
Screen Australia Travel Grant - Emotions Documentary Film Festival, Athens.
The Way We Live Film Festival, Munich
2008 ATOM Award, Best Short Form Documentary - Finalist
Pamela A Walker Award Superfest - Winner
Harmony Film Festival, Best Film - Winner
World of Women Film Festival, Best Documentary - Winner
World Deaf Film Festival Gallaudet - Highly Commended
Katoomba Film Festival - Best Sound
Shepparton Shorts - Best Documentary
Perspectiva, Moscow - Highly Commended
Sprit of SHHH Award
2006 3rd Year Drawing Week Prize - Winner
Waverley Art Prize - Highly Commended
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Fine Arts, National Art School East Sydney
Bachelor of Arts in Communications, UTS Sydney
Interactive Digital Media Scholarship VFX, Metro Screen
Documentary Filmmaking Scholarship, Metro Screen
INTERVIEWS
ABC Life Matters interview with Natasha Mitchell, Radio National - Learning to hear again
ABC 702 interview with Adam Spencer - Is it possible to live a soundless existence?