{"id":57,"date":"2014-05-02T15:42:27","date_gmt":"2014-05-02T15:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sarahlowndes.net\/?page_id=57"},"modified":"2025-09-08T10:16:41","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T10:16:41","slug":"cv","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.sarahlowndes.net\/?page_id=57","title":{"rendered":"CV"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

DR. SARAH LOWNDES<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

My professional background is in rooted in the humanities, specifically Art, Design and Cultural Studies<\/i> and I have held lecturing positions at Glasgow School of Art (2002-2015), University of East Anglia<\/i> (2017-2020) and Research Fellow, Norwich University of the Arts (2017-2023), while in 2025 I took up the role of External Examiner to the National College of Art and Design, Dublin. In 2025, I qualified as a Registered Mental Health Nurse and since then have combined my practice as a Community Mental Health Nurse with ongoing writing, curatorial and educational projects. My teaching at HE<\/i> level includes Art History (with a focus on post 1945 art and design), Art & Design in Organisational<\/i> Contexts (including Gallery and Museum Studies) and Critical and Creative Writing, including Empirical<\/i> Research Methods. My single author books include Social Sculpture: The Rise of the Glasgow Art<\/i> Scene (2004; revised 2010), The DIY Movement in Art, Music and Publishing (2016), Contemporary<\/i> Artists Working Outside the City (2018) and Crowds, Community and Contagion in Contemporary<\/i> Britain (2022). I have curated and produced numerous exhibitions and arts outreach projects, working<\/i> extensively in non-academic contexts such as libraries, museums, galleries and the public sphere as<\/i> part of my commitment to responsible and inclusive practices. Since moving to Norfolk in 2015 I have<\/i> worked with partners across East Anglia including Norfolk Museums, Norfolk County Council Libraries,<\/i> Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Kettle\u2019s Yard, Original Projects, Art at Work and The Assembly House.<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Education<\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2022-2025 BSc Mental Health Nursing, University of East Anglia<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2011- 2013 MLitt Creative Writing, Glasgow University<\/i> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

2002-2007 Glasgow School of Art AHRC funded PhD on Concrete Performance Art of 1960-70s.<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2000-2001 Glasgow School of Art M.Phil. Art and Design in Organisational Contexts.<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

1993-1997 University of Glasgow M.A. (Hons), English Literature \/ Film and Television Studies.<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Selected Published Writing<\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYou’ll Never Walk Alone: a song of community and struggle 1945-2021\u201d, Pattern and Chaos Reader,<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sarah Horton and Victoria Mitchell ed.s, (London: Intellect, 2023).<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Crowds, Community and Contagion in Contemporary Britain (London and New York: Routledge,<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2022, reprinted in paperback edition 2024).<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Sea Cure (Norwich: Norfolk and Norwich Festival, 2021).<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOne Immediate Huge Voice: Raymond Williams and Community\u201d, Podcast and PDF Explainer<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

commissioned by Raymond Williams Foundation for Raymond Williams Centenary 2021.<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Migration, Heritage and Belonging, Sarah Lowndes ed., (Great Yarmouth: Time and Tide Museum,<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2021).<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cLearning to Get Along with People We Don\u2019t Like: Artist-led Projects in Glasgow\u201d, Jeff Khonsary and<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Antonia Pinter ed.s, Institutions by Artists: Volume Two (Vancouver: Filip Editions, 2021).<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Field Work: New Nature Writing from East Anglia, Sarah Lowndes ed., (Norwich: UEA Publishing<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Project, 2020).<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Site Writing: An Alternative Catalogue to the Robert and Lisa Sainsbury Collection, Sarah Lowndes<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

and Nell Croose Myhill, ed.s, (Norwich: Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, 2020).<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMeanwhile at Lower Green, Norwich\u201d, Enclave Review (Cork, Eire: 2019).<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like the Sea I Think: New Marine Writing from East Anglia, Sarah Lowndes ed., (Norwich: UEA<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publishing Project, 2019).<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Contemporary Artists Working Outside the City: Creative Retreat (London and New York, Routledge,<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2018, reprinted in paperback edition 2021).<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Actions: The Image of the World Can Be Different, Andrew Nairne and Sarah Lowndes, ed.s,<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Cambridge: Kettle\u2019s Yard, 2018).<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The DIY Movement in Art, Music and Publishing: Subjugated Knowledges (London and New York,<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Routledge, 2016, reprinted in paperback edition 2018).<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Key Material is Time\u201d, Generation Reader (Edinburgh: National Galleries of Scotland, 2014).<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

All Art is Political: Writings on Performative Art (Edinburgh: Luath Press, 2014).<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWindow shopping: Glasgow art and the politics of display\u201d, Function \/ Dysfunction \u2013 Contemporary<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

art from Glasgow, (Nu\u0308rnberg: Neues Museum, Staatliches Museum fu\u0308r Kunst und Design, 2013).<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHole Punch: The Late Autobiographical Works of Dieter Roth\u201d, Dieter Roth: Diaries, (Edinburgh:<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fruitmarket Gallery \/ London: Yale University Press, 2012).<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Studio 58: Women Artists in Glasgow Since World War II, Sarah Lowndes ed., (Glasgow: Glasgow<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

School of Art Exhibitions Department, 2012).<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBotanical Vaudeville\u201d, Robert Rauschenberg, (New York: Gagosian Gallery, 2011).<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Social Sculpture: The Rise of the Glasgow Art Scene (Edinburgh: Luath Press, 2010).<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cLearned by Heart: The Paintings of Richard Wright\u2019, Richard Wright (New York: Rizzoli, 2010).<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAleana Egan: A Grey Luminous Light from the Sea\u201d, Aleana Egan (Basel: Kunsthalle Basel, 2008).<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Glasgow Scene\u201d, The History of British Art, Volume III (London: Tate Publishing, 2008).<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Selected Public, Curatorial and Educational Projects<\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Course leader, JMW Turner and Changing Visions of Landscape, Shared Reading and Creative Writing Course for Norwich Castle, January-February 2025.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Course leader, SUNLIGHT: Roger Ackling, Shared Reading and Creative Writing Course for Norwich Castle, July-August 2024.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Course leader, The Singh Twins: Slaves of Fashion, Shared Reading and Creative Writing course for<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Norwich Castle, November-December 2022.<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Curator, The Sun Also Rises, The Cut, Halesworth, October-November 2022, ACE funded group<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

exhibition of solar themed contemporary art by Roger Ackling, Nancy Holt, Mary Redmond and<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Howard Sooley, October-November 2022.<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Course leader, The World We Live In, Shared Reading and Creative Writing course for Norwich<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Castle, July-September 2022.<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Course leader, Shared Reading and Creative Writing course, Art at Work Norwich \/ Bridewell<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Museum, May-June 2022.<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Course leader, Shared Reading and Creative Writing course, NUA Fine Art, October-November 2021.<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Curator, Kunsthalle Cromer at the Collectors Cabin, Heritage Open Days, Cromer, September 2021.<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Curator, Weathering: New Art from East Anglia, The Yare Gallery, Great Yarmouth, June-July 2021.<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Course leader, Field Work, ACE funded Shared Reading and Creative Writing project in partnership<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

with Norfolk Libraries at Cromer Library and Great Yarmouth Library, January-February 2020.<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Course leader, Site Writing, Shared Reading and Creative Writing workshops, Sainsbury Centre for<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Visual Arts, Norwich, February 2019 – January 2020.<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Course leader, Like the Sea I Think, ACE funded Shared Reading and Creative Writing project<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

partnership with Norfolk Libraries at Cromer Library and Millennium Library, October-December 2018.<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Workshop leader, Shared Reading WWI poetry workshops at Wells-Next-the-Sea and Brancaster<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Beach, Pages of the Sea (14-18 NOW \/ National Trust, November 2018).<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Curator, Esplanade: A Procession for Women, with participation of 100 local girls and women,<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kunsthalle Cromer, West Promenade, Cromer, 8 March 2018.<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Curator, Panoramic Sea Happening, re-enactment of Tadeusz Kantor\u2019s 1967 happening, with Henry<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Layte as The Conductor, Kunsthalle Cromer, East Beach, Cromer, June 2017.<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Curator, New Edition, group exhibition by Museums Press, Poster Club and Emer Tumilty (Edinburgh<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Printmakers \/ Edinburgh Art Festival, July 2017).<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Editor of bi-annual The Burning Sand prose, poetry and art magazine and curator of related live<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

events (2012-2016), funded by Creative Scotland, distributed by Motto and Good Press.<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Curator, Valise and co-curator, GLASGOW WEEKEND: art, music and design from<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Glasgow (Volksbuehne and BQ, Berlin, 18-22 September 2013).<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Curator, Studio 58: Women Artists in Glasgow Since WWII (Mackintosh Museum, 2012), exhibition<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

included works by 53 artists including loans from the Hunterian Museum, Glasgow Museums and<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Glasgow Women\u2019s Library. Co-organiser (with GSA Exhibitions and AAC, GSA) of Studio 58<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

symposium, and organiser of related film screening event (2012).<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Curator, Dialogue of Hands sculpture park with commissioned works by Chris Johanson, Camilla<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Low, Mary Redmond and Corin Sworn (Glasgow International, 2012).<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Curator and producer, Urlibido, commissioned works by Kim Coleman & Jenny Hogarth, Susie Green,<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shelly Nadashi, Kimberley O\u2019Neill, Morag Ross and Cara Tolmie (Glasgow International, 2010).<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Curator of Votive exhibition, with works by George Brecht, Nerea Bello, Chris Burden, Abraham<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cruzvillegas, Thea Djordjadze, Torsten Lauschmann, Richard Wright and objects loaned from The<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

World Cultures Collection of Glasgow Museums (CCA, Glasgow, 2009).<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chair and co-organiser (with Kathryn Elkin and Louise Shelley) of Subject in Process: Feminism and<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Art symposium (CCA, Glasgow, 2009).<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Curator, Three Blows \u2013 all-sound acoustic performance (St. Cecilia\u2019s Hall, Edinburgh, 2008), with<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Keith Rowe, Mayo Thompson, Sarah Kenchington, Richard Wright and Luke Fowler.<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recent Talks and Lectures<\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chair of \u201cNothing Matter\u201d discussion event, Shoe Factory, Norwich, August 2022.<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cCulture is Ordinary\u201d, Raymond Williams Foundation Centenary online event, August 2021.<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhat Community Means Now\u201d, Assembly Online, Assembly House Norwich, April 2021.<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPerforated, Coastal, Ruined, Neo-Pastoral: The Lure of Peripheral Places\u201d, Assembly Online,<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Assembly House Norwich, January 2021.<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFor a Better Life: Thoughts on Moving\u201d, Yarmonics Sonic Festival, Great Yarmouth, 2020.<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn a Free Spot: Chris Burden and Topanga Canyon\u201d, Assembly Online, October 2020.<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe Are Born as Nouns Not Verbs: Agnes Martin and the New Mexico Desert\u201d, August 2020.<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cVaster than Empires and More Slow: Derek Jarman and Prospect Cottage 1987-1994\u201d, Assembly<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Online, June 2020.<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Orator, First There Is a Mountain, Katie Paterson \/ National Trust, Brancaster Beach, October 2019.<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Writing on Location with Dr Sarah Lowndes, Southwold Sailors\u2019 Reading Rooms for Sainsbury Centre<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

for Visual Art (SCVA) Public Programme, July 2019.<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chair of Artist Unknown panel discussion, Kettle\u2019s Yard, Cambridge, September 2019.<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEar of the Edgeland: Breydon Water\u201d, Broadland Sounds podcast, Great Yarmouth, May 2019.<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cA Field Guide to Getting Lost\u201d, Shared Reading and Creative Writing workshop for Art & Walking<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

project, Art at Work Norwich, delivered in Mildenhall, Suffolk, March 2019.<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cVacant Lots: Artist-Led Spaces, Meanwhile Use and Regeneration\u201d, Lower. Green, Norwich,<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

February 2019.<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhy I Write: Creative Writing as Practice\u201d, Artist\u2019s Programme, SCVA, February 2019.<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe DIY Movement in Art, Music and Publishing: Subjugated Knowledges\u201d, The London Art Book<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fair, Whitechapel Gallery, London, September 2018.<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNice Style: Self-Fashioning in Post-Punk Glasgow Art Bands\u201d, EuroNoize conference, University of<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reading, September 2018.<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“We Are Born as Nouns Not Verbs: Agnes Martin and the New Mexico Desert”, World Art Research<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seminar, University of East Anglia, Norwich, May 2018.<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Norfolk Community Arts Roundtable, New Perspectives in Participatory Arts, AHRC Connected<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Communities Conference, University of East Anglia, May 2018.<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chair of discussion event “What Can Art Do?” with Natasha Walter and Caroline Walker, Kettle’s<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yard, Cambridge, April 2018.<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chair of Women of the World Festival discussion event with Valeria Napoleone and Caroline Douglas,<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Norwich Arts Centre, Norwich, April 2018.<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Women, Act, Make, Archive, Reset”, Glasgow Zine Fest, CCA Glasgow, April 2018.<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Real Life Research”, Postgraduate Research Workshop, Norwich University of the Arts, March 2018.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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