Sarah Read

Sarah Read is a Pōneke Wellington artist who works mainly in the field of contemporary jewellery. Her work has a conceptual base and often features collaboration, social practice or third-party participation.

Education

• BA Visual Arts (Jewellery), Whitireia New Zealand 2010
• BA (Hons) Fine Art, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK 1983
• HandShake mentoring project, 2011-13, HandShake 3, 2016-17, HandShake 5, 2019

Professional engagement

• Occupation: Artist co-founder 2013–ongoing
• TheSeeHere, co-founding member, 2010–2024
• Jelly Arts: associate artist, exhibitor, studio resident, 2017–2020

Selected exhibitions

2025

• Give + Take with Occupation: Artist, Viewfinder, Nelson

2024

• Changing Threads, Nelson Arts Council, finalist
• Give + Take with Occupation: Artist, Radiant Pavilion, Melbourne
• Sweet Labour, RMIT Library, Radiant Pavilion, Melbourne

2023

• H x W x D, Twentysix Gallery, Wellington
• Push Play, Te Auaha, Wellington
• Changing Threads, Nelson Arts Council, finalist and Merit Award winner
• Parkin Prize finalist, NZAFA, Wellington
• Navigating Winter, International Residency, Jelly Arts, Reading
• Reflect: 10 Years of Occupation: Artist, Refinery ArtSpace, Nelson
• Contained:Uncontained, Refinery ArtSpace, Nelson
• Is Your Contemporary Jewellery Body Positive? Platform Arts, Geelong, Australia
• Textile Adjacent, Kingsroy Gallery, New Plymouth
• Rule Number One, TheSeeHere, Wellington

2022

• delimit, Thistle Hall, Wellington
• Textile Adjacent, Anvil House Gallery, Wellington
• Molly Morpeth Canady 3D awards, Whangārei, finalist

2021

• HandShake Group Show at Refinery ArtSpace, Nelson
• Contained/Uncontained, Melbourne

2020

• Show Us Your RONA, TempContemp, Melbourne
• Reset, Gallery Faux, Wellington

2019

• HandShake in dialogue with CODA collection, CODA Museum, Apeldoorn, Netherlands
• Sweet As, Holybrook Gallery, Reading

2018

• Sweet As, Jelly Arts, Reading
• Te Ao Hurihuri, The Crypt Gallery, London
• To the power of 3, Turbine House, Reading
• On the Go, Te Auaha Gallery, Wellington Arts festival
• Superpositions, Stanley St, Sydney

2017

• How to Make a Necklace from a Chair, TheSeeHere, Wellington
• The Jewellers Have Landed, Tate Modern, London
• Outside Galerie Biro, Munich
• Outside Gallery Funaki, Melbourne
• Reflect, The Dowse Art Museum, Wellington
• Paved with Gold with Occupation: Artist, Radiant Pavilion, Melbourne
• HandShake 3, Frame Galleries, Munich

2016

• Outside Gallery SO,  London
• Outside Platina, Stockholm
• HandShake, Platina, Stockholm
• Ahi Kā – Keep the Fires Buring, Pātaka, Wellington
• Lighten up, TheSeeHere, Wellington
• Playthings, Refinery Art Space, Nelson
• Specials, HandShake alumni, Einsaulensaal, Munich