Project Description
About Sarah Jane Moon
Sarah Jane Moon is a painter who specialises in portraiture and figurative painting.
Her work explores identity, sexuality and gender presentation as well as interrogating formal painterly concerns.
She has exhibited with the National Portrait Gallery, Royal Society of Portrait Painters, Royal Institute of Oil Painters, New English Art Club and the New Zealand Portrait Gallery among others. She has been a recipient of the Arts Charitable Trust Award, the Bulldog Bursary for Portraiture and in 2020 was made a candidate for membership to the Royal Society of Portrait Painters. Her portraiture has been featured in Time Magazine, The Guardian, Wallpaper*, Studio International and House & Garden Magazine.
Moon features in the documentary film ‘She Is Juiced’ (directed by Lois Norman) which premiered in 2017 at the Tate Britain. She has also been included in the Pride Power List, which celebrates the achievements of notable LGBTQI+ people and is a regular supporter of Stonewall UK, Terrence Higgins Trust, Pride in London and Art for Youth.
Originally from New Zealand, Moon has lived in Japan, Malaysia, Australia and UK working in education and the arts. She has qualifications in Art Theory and Curatorial Practice from Universities in NZ and Australia as well in Portrait Painting from The Heatherley School of Fine Art in Chelsea.
She teaches regularly at Heatherley’s and occasionally at the Mall Galleries, the Art Academy and the National Portrait Gallery, as well as running specialist classes abroad.
Education:
2009 - 2011
Diploma in Portrait Painting
The Heatherley School of Fine Art, London, UK
2006 - 2007
BA (Hons) Visual Arts Theory
University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
2000 - 2003
BA - Art History, English Literature, Japanese
Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
https://sarahjanemoon.com/press
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:
2020
Painting Lives, Projectroom2020 Online
BP Portrait Award Exhibition, National Portrait Gallery Online
Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Exhibition, Mall Galleries Online
The Family Unit, Thompson’s Galleries, London, UK
2019
Rogue Women, Rogue Artists Studios, Manchester, UK
Queer Portraits, The Department Store, London, UK
Face To Face 2019: Works By BP Portrait Award Artists, Cass Art Islington, London, UK
BP Portrait Award Exhibition, National Portrait Gallery, London & Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London, UK
Sarah Jane Moon at Heatherleys, The Heatherley School of Fine Art, London, UK
2018
Queer Art(ists) Now, Archive Gallery, London, UK
Portraits: Facing Others & The Self, Clifford Chance, London, UK
This Joyous Chaotic Place, Mokopopaki, Auckland, New Zealand
Threesome, New Art Projects, London & The Gallery, Liverpool, UK
2017
The Full Picture: Oxford in Portraits, Weston Library, Oxford, UK
GFEST, Menier Gallery, London, UK
Queer Art(ists) Now, Archive Gallery, London, UK
In Your Face, Salisbury Arts Centre, Salisbury, UK
2016
Beyond Margins, Menier Gallery, London, UK
Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London, UK
Adam Portraiture Award, NZ Portrait Gallery, New Zealand
12 @ Menier, Menier Gallery, London, UK
2015
The Royal Institute of Oil Painters Annual Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London, UK
The Contemporary Portrait, Thompson’s Galleries, London, UK
The Ruth Borchard Self Portrait Prize, Piano Nobile, London, UK
New English Art Club Annual Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London, UK
Through My Eyes, Gibberd Gallery, Harlow, UK
Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London, UK
Inside Portraits, Mall Galleries, London, UK
The Molly Morpeth Canaday Art Awards, Te Koputu a te whanga a Toi, Whakatane, New Zealand
2014
The New English Art Club Annual Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London, UK
Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London, UK
The Lynn Painter Stainers Prize, Mall Galleries, London, UK
2011
Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London, UK