biography

Profile
Sarah Moller is an Adelaide-based artist and educator whose large-scale oil paintings seek to explore the diversity and ubiquity of the painted medium. Incorporating light, form, trajectory and colour, Sarah’s figurative work engages with notions of movement and outbursts of exuberance. Sarah is a member of Switchboard Studios, Norwood, and her paintings are held in private collections in Australia and Europe.
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Education
2011 – 2015: Doctor of Philosophy (Visual Arts), Charles Darwin University
2011 – 2012: Studied painting under Professor Anne Berning, Akademie für Bildende Kunst (Academy for Visual Arts), Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany
2010: Bachelor of Creative Arts and Industries (First Class Honours), Charles Darwin University
Studies for this degree were commenced at Adelaide Central School of Art
2005: Graduate Diploma of Education, Adelaide University
2001: Bachelor of Arts, Adelaide University 
 
Prizes and Scholarships
Travel Extra “Best Curiosity” prize, Saint Ignatius Art Show, 2013
Australian Post Graduate Award Scholarship for Doctoral Studies, 2011 - 2014
Northern Editions Post-Graduate Prize, 2010
Wyndham Estate People's Choice winner, 2010
Darwin Visual Art Association's Graduate Prize, 2009
 
Public Art Commissions
Mural for Hannan Stairwell, Aquinas College, February 2022
Artwork for Lucey Study Centre, Aquinas College, January 2021
Mural for Room 110, Majestic Minima Art Hotel, North Adelaide, February 2020
Pencil Sculpture Public Art, St Andrews Lutheran School Darwin, 2010
 
Residencies & memberships
Artist in residence, Loreto College, 2015 & 2016
Artist in residence, Endeavour College, 2014
Artist in residence, St Andrews Lutheran School Darwin, 2010
Board member, Darwin Visual Arts Association, 2009 - 2011

Solo Exhibitions
Snowdome
9 September – 2 October 2016
Floating Goose Gallery, Adelaide
              
Lingua Franca
24 July – 8 August 2015
Tooth & Nail Gallery, Adelaide
 
en route, en mass
28 September - 19 October 2014
Framed Gallery, Darwin

What the sax player saw when the lights went down
Adelaide Fringe Exhibition, 14 February – 17 March 2013
The Promethean, Adelaide
 
Return Ticket to Antipodes
28 September - 20 October 2012
Framed Gallery, Darwin

worldviewww.
29 October - 12 November 2010
Nan Giese Gallery, Darwin
 
Poser
9 April - 1 May 2010
Darwin Visual Arts Association
 
Group Exhibitions
SALA exhibitions 2013 – 2021
Regular exhibitor in St Ignatius College SALA Show & St Stephen’s Adelaide
 
Loreto Spring Art
Regular exhibitor 2018 – 2021
Loreto College, Adelaide
 
Amy Worth Gallery
October 2015
Audi Club, Adelaide Oval

Intimate Residues
1 – 14 June 2012
Nan Giese Gallery, Darwin 
 
Rundgang
8 - 12 February 2012
Akademie für Bildende Kunst, Mainz, Germany
 
Afterlife
1 March  - 3 April 2011
Darwin Visual Arts Association
 
Brain Art 
3 - 12 March 2011
Global Gallery, Paddington
 
Merge
15 - 30 January 2011
Nan Giese Gallery, Darwin
 
Wyndham Estate Prize
July 2010
Darwin Visual Arts Association
 
Media
Postcards, Channel 7 Adelaide, Screened Sunday 17th March, 2019
Feature artist for segment on Majestic Minima Hotel, North Adelaide
 
‘Lingua Franca: an exhibition by Sarah Moller’, July 2018
Weekend Notes by Andrew Harten, https://www.weekendnotes.com/profile/561598/
 
‘Die Last der eingeforderten Individualitat’, 1st March 2012
Newspaper article by Hennig Lauterbach, Main Echo, Mainz, Germany
 
‘En route, en masse’, 28th September 2012
Newspaper article by Damien McCarthy, NT News, Darwin

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