News – Sarah Pickering

Rehearsing the Real

Manifesta 11 The European biennial of contemporary art

Manifesta 11 The European biennial of contemporary art 11 June -18 September 2016, Zurich, Switzerland The Historical Exhibition: Sites Under Construction What do you want to be when you grow up?’ From early childhood on, work is thought of as something of essential importance for personal desires. The profession we select… Read more

Pickpocket – A Professional Development Workshop for Artists

Pickpocket – A Professional Development Workshop for Artists Performance: devised by Sarah Pickering , performed by Christophe Ambre Guild of Artists The Cabaret der Künstler – Zunfthaus Voltaire During Manifesta 11, Cabaret Voltaire will be transformed into a guildhall for artists called Cabaret der Künstler – Zunfthaus Voltaire. It is inspired… Read more

Revelations – Experiments in Photography

Revelations – Experiments in Photography 20th March – 13th September 2015 Media Space, Science Museum, Exhibition Road, London, SW7 2DD Muzzle Flash will be exhibitied in Revelations at the Science Museum’s Media Space. The show explores the influence of early scientific photography on modern and contemporary art in this major… Read more

BBC Radio 4 Today Programme Sarah Pickering & Ben Burbridge

BBC Radio 4 Today Programme Sarah Pickering & Ben Burbridge Interviewed about the exhibition Revelations, April 2015 Read more

REFOCUS Commission & Prize for Photography

REFOCUS Commission & Prize for Photography June saw the launch of my giant Public Artwork, Match in Stockton-on-Tees. The REFOCUS commission, and the ongoing Prize, aims to re-position photography as a medium which is able to work on multiple levels – as transitory, but also long-term, as something that is a democratic… Read more

mima Print Edition

mima Print Edition I have made an edition of 50 prints for mima to coincide with the REFOCUS Prize and commission. Edition prints are 1 to 1 scale photographs of John Walker’s Congreve Friction Match from c1827. The archival pigment prints are available unframed or framed in dark stained and… Read more

Staging Disorder London College of Communication

Staging Disorder London College of Communication, Elephant & Castle, London SE1 6SB 26 January – 12 March 2015 Curated by Christopher Stewart and Esther Teichmann, Staging Disorder explores the contemporary representation of the real in relation to modern conflict. The exhibition includes selected images from seven photographic series that were… Read more

Staging Disorder Symposium

Staging Disorder Symposium 27th January 2.00pm – 6.00pm Main Lecture Theatre. Free to Attend. Convened by Esther Teichmann and Christopher Stewart, including the following speakers: Sarah Pickering, Beate Geissler (Geissler/Sann), Alexandra Stara, Paul Lowe, Jennifer Good, Paul Tebbs, Pratap Rughani, Cathy Lane and Angus Carlyle Read more

Staging Disorder – Publication eds Christopher Stewart & Esther Teichmann

Staging Disorder – Publication eds Christopher Stewart & Esther Teichmann Contributors: David Campany, Howard Caygill, Jennifer Good, Adam Jasper, An-My Lê, Alexandra Stara, Christopher Stewart, Esther Teichmann Black Dog Publishing 2015 Paperback. 128 pages. 63 b/w and colour illustrations. 28.0 x 23.0 cm / 11.0 x 9.0 in. ISBN13: 978-1-910433-15-7 http://blackdogonline.com/photography/staging-disorder.html Read more

Director’s Cut: Recent Photography Gifts to the NCMA

Director’s Cut: Recent Photography Gifts to the NCMA East Building, Level A, Photography Galleries, North Carolina Museum of Art April 4–September 13, 2015 Director’s Cut features a selection of photographs from recent gifts to the Museum in honor of Dr. Lawrence Wheeler’s 20th anniversary as director of the North Carolina Museum of… Read more

Solo Exhibition: Art & Antiquities at Derby Museum and Art Gallery

Solo Exhibition: Art & Antiquities at Derby Museum and Art Gallery 13th March – 26th April 2015 FORMAT Festival – Evidence In Art and Antiquities the viewer is presented with a body of photographs, a series of objects and a HD 2 minute looped film in response to a museum exhibition… Read more

Format Conference FORMAT15

Format Conference FORMAT15 Conference 10 April, 9:30am – 5:30pm (registration begins at 9am) QUAD, Cinema 1 Passes: £60, £45 concessions (QUAD members, over 60s, unwaged, student) Refreshments and a light-lunch will be included For FORMAT15 we present an interdisciplinary conference at QUAD that takes as its starting point the main… Read more

Symposium: Duplicata Rye Creative Centre

Symposium: Duplicata Rye Creative Centre 30th June 2015 12.30 – 4.30 Rye Creative Centre’s third annual Symposium was organised by Nina Rodin to coincide with her exhibition. The Symposium, titled Duplicata comprised an afternoon of talks and discussions around the theme of Fakes and Forgery and we were delighted to present an… Read more

The Photographer’s Playbook

The Photographer’s Playbook My assignment The Camera Never Lies is one of the 307 Assignments and Ideas, in the Photographers Playbook edited by Jason Fulford and Gregory Halpern. Published by Aperture. 6 x 9 inches 440 pages, paperback ISBN 978-1-59711-247-5 Read more

Commission:Seven Nights, Seven Photographers Artangel & Guardian

Commission: Seven Nights, Seven Photographers Artangel & Guardian Commission to make a photographic response to Ryoji Ikeda’s installation, Spectra Read more

Aim & Fire DLI Museum & Durham Art Gallery, 18th October 2013 – 12th January 2014

Aim & Fire DLI Museum & Durham Art Gallery, 18th October 2013 – 12th January 2014 “Aim”, “shoot” and “fire”; the language of the gun is shared with that of photography and film. It’s not surprising that the camera and gun evolved together. In the 1880’s cameras with sequential frames for… Read more

Living in the Ruins of the Twentieth Century, UTS Gallery, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia

Living in the Ruins of the Twentieth Century, UTS Gallery, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia 16 April – 17 May 2013 Living in the Ruins of the Twentieth Century is a celebration of curiosity through the profound and the mundane.Presenting a vision of the twentieth century as a history of false… Read more

MAKE8ELIEVE Issue #3 on the theme OIL

MAKE8ELIEVE Issue #3 on the theme OIL http://issuu.com/make8elieve/docs/m8-03?e=4331330/2621490#DDDDDD Read more

Tengen Issue #4

Tengen Issue #4 http://issuu.com/tengenmag/docs/tengenissue4 Read more

An Orchestrated Vision – The Theater of Contemporary Art Photography, St Louis Art Museum, USA.

An Orchestrated Vision – The Theater of Contemporary Art Photography, St Louis Art Museum, USA. February 19th – May 13th 2012 The Theater of Contemporary Photography is a compelling survey of contemporary photographers, many presented in St. Louis for the first time. Seen together, the works reveal the remarkable potential of the… Read more

Hijacked III – Contemporary Photography from Australia and the United Kingdom, 3rd March – 6th May 2012

Hijacked III – Contemporary Photography from Australia and the United Kingdom, 3rd March – 6th May 2012 Major survey exhibition and publication featuring the best photographic talents from or within Australia and the United Kingdom. Known for halting the status quo, arresting the scene and exploding a new perspective on the practices… Read more

Publication: Radical History Review 2012 Volume 2012, Number 114: 7-18

Publication: Radical History Review 2012 Volume 2012, Number 114: 7-18 Read more

Reflections: Eye on the Street

Reflections: Eye on the Street Read more

Photography in Urban Public spaces by Jennifer Tucker

Photography in Urban Public spaces by Jennifer Tucker Jennifer Tucker discusses work from my Public Order series. Read more

Moby Dick Big ReadCommisioned Work for Chapter 36: The Quarter-Deck

Online publication and Audiobook: Moby Dick Big Read Commisioned Work for Chapter 36: The Quarter-Deck http://www.mobydickbigread.com/chapter-36-the-quarter-deck/ Read more

Philosophy of Photography, Volume 3, Number 1, December 2012, pp. 121-139(19)

Philosophy of Photography, Volume 3, Number 1, December 2012, pp. 121-139(19) Read more

Art photography at the ‘End of Temporality’ Ben Burbridge

Art photography at the ‘End of Temporality’ Ben Burbridge http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-issue,id=2348/ Read more

Public Relations Imaging the City – Cardiff

Public Relations Imaging the City – Cardiff Photographic Publication with Paul Shambroom, Dan Holdsworth and Martin Parr commissioned by SAFLE & St Davids 2 with Visiting a Visiting Fellowship in association with the Centre for Photographic Research (CPR), University of Wales, Newport Read more

Group Exhibition: La Vie Mode D’Emploi / Life a User’s Manual, Meessen De Clercq Gallery, BrusselsSeptember 10th – October 15th 2011

Group Exhibition: Signs of a Struggle: Photography in the Wake of Postmodernism, Victoria & Albert Museum, London 11th August – 27th November 2011

Group Exhibition: Signs of a Struggle: Photography in the Wake of Postmodernism, Victoria & Albert Museum, London 11th August – 27th November 2011 This display explores photographs that make reference to themselves, other media and texts, and demonstrates how such Postmodernist approaches to photography have persisted for over 30 years. Spanning the mid-1970s… Read more

Group Exhibition: Landscape Sublime, North Carolina Museum of Art, USA June 5th – November 13th 2011

Group Exhibition: Landscape Sublime, North Carolina Museum of Art, USA June 5th – November 13th 2011 http://ncartmuseum.org/ Read more

Group Exhibition: History Painting Now, Art Sensus Gallery, London May 6th – June 4th, 2011

Group Exhibition: Angry Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam 22nd January – 13th June 2011

Solo Exhibition: Art & Antiquities April 30 – June 11 2011, Meessen De Clercq, Brussels

Solo Exhibition: Art & Antiquities April 30 – June 11 2011, Meessen De Clercq, Brussels Art Brussels 28 April – 1st May 2011, Meessen De Clercq, stand 3c-18 www.meessendeclercq.be Read more

Locate Jerwood Visual Art commission Sarah Pickering, Aura Satz and Mel Brimfield curated by Sarah Williams 2010

Locate Jerwood Visual Art commission Sarah Pickering, Aura Satz and Mel Brimfield curated by Sarah Williams Sarah Pickering’s photographs allow the viewer to experience institutional representations of the real world. For Locate Pickering has created a new body of photographs in response to a museum exhibition on Fakes and Forgeries organised… Read more

Revealing Evidence Sarah Pickering and Shelley Goldsmith, PM Gallery and House, Ealing, London

Revealing Evidence Sarah Pickering and Shelley Goldsmith, PM Gallery and House, Ealing, London September 15th – October 23rd 2010 www.ealing.gov.uk/ Read more

Locus+ Commission Spring 2011

Locus+ Commission Spring 2011 www.locusplus.org.uk Read more

Incident Control – Sarah Pickering Museum of Contemporary Photography Chicago

Incident Control – Sarah Pickering Museum of Contemporary Photography Chicago April 9th – June 20th 2010 Read more

Monograph – Sarah Pickering: Explosions, Fires, and Public Order 2010

Monograph – Sarah Pickering: Explosions, Fires, and Public Order Aperture (15 Mar 2010) ISBN-10: 1597111236 www.aperture.org/ Read more

Group Exhibition – MANIPULATING REALITY. How Images Redefine the World 2009

Group Exhibition – MANIPULATING REALITY. How Images Redefine the World (25 September 2009 – 17 January 2010) Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, Florence A project by CCCS. Scientific Committee: Martino Marangoni, Franziska Nori, Brett Rogers, Luminita Sabau Thursday September 24th 2009 at 7 pm Centro di Cultura Contemporanea Strozzina Palazzo Strozzi, Piazza… Read more

Group Show – Manmade: Notions of Landscape from the Lannan Collection New Mexico Museum of Art (Oct 9, 2009 – Jan 3, 2010)

Group Show – Manmade: Notions of Landscape from the Lannan Collection New Mexico Museum of Art (Oct 9, 2009 – Jan 3, 2010) Manmade: Notions of Landscape from the Lannan Collection features the work of nine artists whose work is an exploration of man and the landscape—not landscape in its most literal… Read more

Publication – Hotshoe International Magazine

Publication – Hotshoe International Magazine – Sarah Pickering – Fire Scenes Interview with Anthony Luvera. April – May 2009 pp 20-29 Read more

Talk – Martin Barnes in conversation with Sarah Pickering & Jem Southam

Talk – Martin Barnes in conversation with Sarah Pickering & Jem Southam Friday Late – Victoria and Albert Museum 7pm Hochauser Auditorium Friday 29th May Read more

Solo Exhibition – Explosion 2009

Solo Exhibition – Explosion March 6, 2009 – April 12, 2009 Meessen De Clercq, Brussels http://www.meessendeclercq.be/ The UK artist Sarah Pickering captured, in her series Explosion, the detonation of bombs as used by the army for training purposes. Her photographs, awarded with several international prizes and soon on show in an… Read more

Holding Fire 2009

Holding Fire May 8, 2009 – June 20th, 2009 Ffotogallery Turner House Plymouth Road Penarth CF64 3DM029 2070 8870 http://www.ffotogallery.org/index.php An exhibition of work from the Explosion and the Incident series. Read more

Group Show – Theatres of the Real

Group Show – Theatres of the Real June 18, 2009 – Sept 13, 2009 Foto Museum Waalse Kaai 47 B-2000 Antwerp Belgium tel.: +32 3 242 93 00 http://www.fotomuseum.be/en/The show on ‘British contemporary photography today’ will be installed on the main floor of the Fotomuseum Antwerp. The exhibition will be accompanied… Read more

Photography Collection Gallery

Photography Collection Gallery April 30, 2009 – April 2010 V&A museum, Cromwell Road London SW7 2RL +44 (0)20 7942 2000 http://www.vam.ac.uk/exhibitions/index.html White Goods from the Incident series will be featured alongside other new acquisitions and works from the museum collection Read more

Publication – Sarah Pickering – Photographs 2010

Publication – Sarah Pickering – Photographs Spring 2010 A monograph with Aperture featuring work from the series Explosion, Fire Scene, Incident and Public Order, and other previously unseen work. More details to follow. Read more

Publication & Commission – Imaging the City – Cardiff.

Publication & Commission – Imaging the City – Cardiff. Photographic Book Project with Paul Shambroom, Dan Holdsworth and Martin Parr commissioned by SAFLE & St Davids 2. Publication scheduled for autumn 2009. More details to follow. Read more

Manifesta 11 The European biennial of contemporary art

Pickpocket – A Professional Development Workshop for Artists

Pickpocket – A Professional Development Workshop for Artists Performance Guild of Artists The Cabaret der Künstler – Zunfthaus Voltaire During Manifesta 11, Cabaret Voltaire will be transformed into a guildhall for artists called Cabaret der Künstler – Zunfthaus Voltaire. It is inspired by traditional guilds, where likeminded people collectively represent their… Read more