Sarah Pickering

Pickering was born and raised in Durham, England, and attended Belmont Comprehensive School and Durham Sixth Form Centre.{{cite news | url = http://www.pressreader.com/uk/sunderland-echo/20131113/281887296076709 | date = 13 November 2013 | accessdate = 8 April 2017 | newspaper = Sunderland Echo | location = Sunderland | first = Fiona | last = Thompson | title = Sarah's Exhibition Hits the Mark}} After a foundation course in art and design at Newcastle College (1991–1992), she was awarded a BA (Hons.) in photographic studies at the University of Derby (1992–1995), and a MA in photography at the Royal College of Art (2003–2005).{{cite book | title=Sarah Pickering - Explosions, Fires and Public Order | author=Sarah Pickering |year=2010 | publisher=Aperture Foundation | isbn = 978-1597111232| page=121}}"[http://www.jerwoodvisualarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Locate-press-release_Final.pdf Locate: A Jerwood Encounters exhibition: Curated by Sarah Williams]". Jerwood Foundation. Accessed 18 April 2017

Her artist statement says she is interested in "fakes, tests, hierarchy, sci-fi, explosions, photography and gunfire."

Based in London, she is a part-time teaching fellow in fine art media at the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London.

"Match, 2015", was a 38 metre long public artwork installed at Castlegate Shopping Centre, Stockton-on-Tees between 2016 and 2017.{{cite news | url = http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/12981215.A_heavenly_match_made_in_Stockton_to_be_displayed_in_new_work_of_art/ | date = 30 May 2015 | access-date = 7 April 2017 | first = Chris | last = Webber | publisher = The Northern Echo | location = Darlington | title = A heavenly match made in Stockton to be displayed in new work of art}}{{cite news | url = http://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/teesside-news/students-38-metre-friction-match-artwork-9355286 | date = 29 May 2015 | access-date = 7 April 2017 | first = Lindsey | last = Sampson | publisher = Teesside Gazette | location = Middlesbrough | title = Student's 38-metre friction match artwork to take pride of place in Stockton}}

• Sarah Pickering - Explosions, Fires and Public Order. Aperture, 2010. {{ISBN|978-1597111232}}.

• Vitamin Ph, A survey of Contemporary Photography. Phaidon, 2006. {{ISBN|9780714856421}}.
• System Error: War is a Force that Gives us Meaning. Italy: Silvana, 2007. {{ISBN|9788836608423}}. Edited by L. Fusi and N. Mohaiemen.
• How We Are Photographing Britain from the 1840s to the present. London: Tate, 2007. {{ISBN|9781854377142}}. Edited by Val Williams and Susan Bright.
• In our World, New Photography in Britain. 2008. Milan: Skira. {{ISBN|9788861305434}}. Edited by Filippo Maggia. Pickering's contribution is on pages 142–151.
• Foam Album 08. Amsterdam: Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam, 2008. {{ISBN|9789490022013}}.
• New Light: Jerwood Photography Awards 2003–08. Edinburgh: Portfolio Magazine, 2009. {{ISBN|978-0-9520608-4-0}}. With a foreword by Roanne Dods, an essay by Martin Barnes, and an afterword by Gloria Chalmers.
• Theatres of the Real. Antwerp: Fotomuseum Antwerp; Brighton: Photoworks, 2009. {{ISBN|9781903796269}}.
• Realtà Manipolate/Manipulating Reality. Alias, 2009. {{ISBN|9788896532041}}.
• C International Photo Magazine 09. London: Ivorypress, 2009. {{ISBN|9780955961335}}.
• Bruit De Fond/Background Noise. Je Suis une Bande de Jeunes, 2010. {{ISBN|9782953350616}}.
• Afterwards: Contemporary Photography Confronting the Past. London: Thames & Hudson, 2011. {{ISBN|9780500543986}}. Edited by Nathalie Herschdorfer.
• Public Relations. SAFLE Commission, 2012. {{ISBN|9780950820163}}.
• Hijacked III: Australia / United Kingdom. Cottesloe, WA: Big City; Heidelberg: Kehrer, 2012. {{ISBN|9783868282856}}. Exhibition catalogue.
• The Photographer's Playbook: 307 Assignments and Ideas. New York: Aperture, 2014. {{ISBN|978-1-59711-247-5}}. Edited by Gregory Halpern and Jason Fulford.
• Staging Disorder. London: Black Dog Publishing, 2015. {{ISBN|9781910433157}}. Edited by Christopher Stewart and Esther Teichmann.
• Revelations. London: Mack, 2015. Edited by Ben Burbridge. {{ISBN|9781907946455}}.

• 2005: Worshipful Company of Painter-Stainers Photography Prize, Royal College of Art.{{cite book | title=In our World, New Photography in Britain | year=2008 | editor = Filippo Maggia | publisher= Skira | isbn = 9788861305434 | page=143}}
• 2005: The Photographers' Gallery Graduate Award, London."[http://thephotographersgallery.org.uk/3180/Sarah-Pickering-Wins-The-Photographers-Gallery-Graduate-Award/1004 Sarah Pickering Wins The Photographers' Gallery Graduate Award]". The Photographers' Gallery, 13 June 2005. Accessed 7 April 2017
• 2005: Jerwood Photography Award, for Public Order. Other winners were Daniel Gustav Cramer, Nina Mangalanayagam, Oliver Parker, and Luke Stephenson."[http://www.jerwoodvisualarts.org/projects/jerwood-photography-award-2005/ Jerwood Photography Award 2005]". Jerwood Charitable Foundation. Accessed 7 April 2017{{cite news | url = https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/photographers-take-a-view-on-hot-political-issues-5349058.html | date = 18 November 2005 | access-date = 7 April 2017 | first = Terri | last = Judd | work = The Independent | location = London | title = Photographers take a view on hot political issues}}
• 2008: Peter S. Reed Award, Peter S. Reed Foundation, USA.{{cite web |title=List of Individual grant recipients by year - 2008 |url=http://www.petersreedfoundation.com/petersreed2008.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170408111247/http://www.petersreedfoundation.com/petersreed2008.html |archive-date=8 April 2017 |access-date=7 April 2017 |website=Peter S. Reed Foundation}}
• 2015: Refocus: the Castlegate mima Photography Prize, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (mima) and Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council. A commission to produce "Match, 2015".{{cite web | url = http://www.refocusprize.com/match-2015/ | access-date = 7 April 2017 | publisher = Refocus | title = Match, 2015}}{{cite web |date=16 June 2015 |title=Teesside University lecturer recreates famous John Walker match |url=https://www.tees.ac.uk/sections/news/pressreleases_story.cfm?story_id=4965 |access-date=7 April 2017 |publisher=Teesside University}}

• Fire Scene, Daniel Cooney Fine Art, New York City, 2008.{{cite news | url = https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/13/AR2006011300411.html | date = 15 January 2006 | access-date = 7 April 2017 | first = Blake | last = Gopnik | newspaper = The Washington Post | location = Washington, D.C. | title = Up in Smoke: An Explosive Approach to Art}}
• Explosion, Meessen De Clercq, Brussels, 2009.
• Holding Fire, Ffotogallery, Wales, 2009.
• Incident Control, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL, 2010.
• Aim & Fire, included Celestial Objects and other works, Durham Art Gallery, Durham, England. Part of The Social: Encountering Photography festival, 2013, for which Celestial Objects was commissioned.{{cite web|url = http://www.bjp-online.com/2013/11/new-photography-festival-takes-over-northeast-england/ | date = 1 November 2013 | accessdate = 17 April 2017 | first = Gemma | last = Padley | magazine = British Journal of Photography | title = New photography festival takes over Northeast England}}

• Part of East International festival, Norwich, UK, 2005. Selected by Gustav Metzger.{{cite web|url = http://www.eastinternational.net/east/artists/pages/2005_pages/pickering_2005.html | accessdate = 17 April 2017 | publisher = East International, Norwich University of the Arts | title = East International 2005: Sarah Pickering}}{{dead link|date=March 2025|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}
• How We Are: Photographing Britain from the 1840s to the Present, Tate Britain, London, 2007. Curated by Val Williams and Susan Bright."[http://www.tate.org.uk/context-comment/articles/we-are-here We are here: Photographing Britain]", Tate, 1 May 2007. Accessed 17 April 2017.
• 'Theatres of the Real' – Contemporary British Post-Documentary Photography, Fotomuseum Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium, 2009. Curated by David Green and Joanna Lowry.{{cite web |date=2009 |title='Theatres of the Real' – Contemporary British Post-Documentary Photography |url=https://www.fotomuseum.be/en/exhibitions/archive/archive-2009.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170517191229/https://www.fotomuseum.be/en/exhibitions/archive/archive-2009.html |archive-date=17 May 2017 |access-date=17 April 2017 |website= |publisher=Fotomuseum Antwerp}}
• Manipulating Reality: How Images Redefine the World, Centro di Cultura Contemporanea Strozzina, Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy, 2009/10.{{cite web|url = http://www.strozzina.org/manipulatingreality/e_index.php | accessdate = 17 April 2017 | publisher = Centro di Cultura Contemporanea Strozzina | title = Manipulating Reality: How Images Redefine the World}}
• Signs of a Struggle: Photography in the Wake of Postmodernism, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 2011.{{cite news | url = https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/reviews/signs-of-a-struggle-vampa-london-2341103.html | date = 20 August 2011 | access-date = 7 April 2017 | first = Ossian | last = Ward | work = The Independent | location = London | title = Signs of a Struggle, V&A, London}}{{cite news | url = https://www.standard.co.uk/arts/signs-of-a-struggle-va-review-7439510.html | date = 16 August 2011 | access-date = 7 April 2017 | publisher = London Evening Standard | location = London | title = Signs of a Struggle: V&A - review}} Curated by Marta Weiss.
• An Orchestrated Vision: The Theater of Contemporary Photography, Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO, 2012.{{cite web |title=An Orchestrated Vision: The Theater of Contemporary Photography: February 19–May 13, 2012 |url=http://www.slam.org/exhibitions/archive/orchestratedvision.php |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171016010502/http://www.slam.org/exhibitions/archive/orchestratedvision.php |archive-date=16 October 2017 |access-date=17 April 2017 |publisher=Saint Louis Art Museum}}{{cite news |url = https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702304356604577341740902550410 | date = 17 April 2012 | accessdate = 17 April 2017 | author = Richard B. Woodward | publisher = The Wall Street Journal | title = Walls Come Tumbling Down}}{{cite news |url = http://www.westendword.com/Articles-c-2012-02-28-179325.114137-An-Orchestrated-Vision.html | date = 29 February 2012 | accessdate = 17 April 2017 | first = Dickson | last = Beall | publisher = Webster-Kirkwood Times | title = "An Orchestrated Vision": Saint Louis Art Museum debuts exhibit of contemporary photography}}
• Living in the Ruins of the Twentieth Century, UTS Gallery, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia, 2013.{{cite web|url = http://art.uts.edu.au/index.php/exhibitions/living-in-the-ruins-of-the-twentieth-century/ | accessdate = 17 April 2017 | publisher = University of Technology, Sydney | title = Living In The Ruins Of The Twentieth Century: A vision of the twentieth century as a history of false starts, misbegotten technologies and missing utopias.}}{{cite web |title=Living in the Ruins of the Twentieth Century |url=http://livingintheruins.net/Exhibition-installation-views |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160314201628/http://livingintheruins.net/Exhibition-installation-views |archive-date=14 March 2016 |access-date=17 April 2017 |website=Living in the Ruins}}
• Revelations: Experiments in Photography, Media Space, Science Museum, London, 2015;{{cite web |date=January 2015 |title=Revelations: Experiments in Photography |url=http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/about-us/press/jan-2015/revelations |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170403214012/http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/about-us/press/jan-2015/revelations |archive-date=3 April 2017 |access-date=7 April 2017 |website=Science Museum |publisher=Media Space}} National Media Museum, Bradford, 2015/16.{{cite web | url = https://www.scienceandmediamuseum.org.uk/what-was-on/revelations-experiments-photography | access-date = 1 May 2020 | publisher = National Science and Media Museum | title = Revelations: Experiments in Photography}} Co-curated by Greg Hobson and Ben Burbridge.
• Professions Performing in Art, Manifesta 11, Zurich, 2016. Curated by Christian Jankowski and Francesca Gavin.

Pickering's work is held in the following permanent collections:

• Victoria and Albert Museum, London: 2 prints{{cite web |last= |first= |title=White Goods {{!}} Pickering, Sarah |url=https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O239503/ |access-date=8 May 2022 |website=Victoria and Albert Museum}}{{cite web |last= |first= |title=John Adams, Museum Collection. Salted paper Print circa 1852-60. Unknown Photographer {{!}} Sarah Pickering |url=https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1240212/ |access-date=8 May 2022 |website=Victoria and Albert Museum}}
• Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL: 2 prints"[http://www.mocp.org/detail.php?type=related&kv=9086&t=objects Landmine]". Museum of Contemporary Photography. Accessed 7 April 2017"[http://www.mocp.org/detail.php?t=objects&type=all&f=&s=Pickering%2C+Sarah&record=0 Dining Room]". Museum of Contemporary Photography. Accessed 17 April 2017
• North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC: 3 prints{{cite web |date=11 March 2021 |title=Cigarette |url=https://ncartmuseum.org/object/cigarette/ |access-date=8 May 2022 |website=North Carolina Museum of Art}}{{cite web |date=11 March 2021 |title=Large Maroon |url=https://ncartmuseum.org/object/large-maroon/ |access-date=8 May 2022 |website=North Carolina Museum of Art}}{{cite web |date=11 March 2021 |title=Shellburst Day |url=https://ncartmuseum.org/object/shellburst-day/ |access-date=8 May 2022 |website=North Carolina Museum of Art}}
• LACMA, Los Angeles, USA: 1print{{cite web |last=Packard |first=Cassie |date=7 October 2021 |title=LACMA and the Brooklyn Museum Will Share 200 Photographs by European Women Artists |url=http://hyperallergic.com/682404/lacma-and-brooklyn-museum-share-200-photographs-by-european-women-artists/ |access-date=3 July 2023 |website=Hyperallergic }}
• Brooklyn Museum: 1 print{{cite web |last=LACMA |first=Press Release |date=30 September 2021 |title=EXHIBITION Advisory Exhibition: In the Now: Gender and Nation in Europe, Selections from the Sir Mark Fehrs Haukohl Photography Collection On View: November 14, 2021–February 13, 2022 Location: Resnick Pavilion |url=https://www.lacma.org/sites/default/files/press/2021-09/EXHIBITION-Advisory-In-the-Now-9.30.21.pdf |access-date=3 July 2023 |website=LACMA.org}}

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• {{Official website|sarahpickering.co.uk}}
• [https://vimeo.com/11904198 Video interview from 2010 in which Susan Bright gives an introduction to Pickering, who talks about her Public Order series]
• [https://vimeo.com/130876250 Video interviews about making the "Match, 2015" commission for Refocus: the Castlegate mima Photography Prize]

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