Sarah Lightman is an award-winning fine artist, a curator and arts journalist.

She makes 'diary drawings' of her life, autobiographical drawings and texts of her life, that panel by panel form an ongoing graphic novel of her life.

She is a PhD student at  The University of Glasgow  researching 'Autobiography in Comics'.

Sarah's next solo show, 'In Memoriam', will open at Another Roadside Attraction Gallery, Hackney 3 September - 11 October 2009. Sarah will be discussing her work with Dr. Rachel Garfield on  the evening of Thursday 3rd September in the gallery.

The show will then travel to The New Hall Art Collection, Murray Edwards College, Cambridge University, from 18 October- 14 November 2009. (More information here:
http://www-art.newhall.cam.ac.uk/exhibitions)

Sarah is organising a conference  with Dr. Laurence Grove, entitled 'Women in Comics', on Sunday 25th October 2009, at the New Hall Art Collection. 

In 2008, Sarah curated Diary Drawing an exhibition of 11 international artists  who make autobiographical drawings of their life and has given a paper on the topic at Northampton University. She has also curated 4 exhibitions of contemporary art for Ben Uri Gallery, The London Jewish Museum of Art. These were The Fortnight of Solo Shows, Journeys, Bomberg's Relevance and Schmatte Couture

She has written for The Artist, Haaretz.com, The Jewish Chronicle and Artist Newsletter. and  regularily contributes to Artrabbit. She has recorded series of interviews with artists and curators for Resonance FM, including Marcus Coates, Meryl Doney, Maryclare Foa and Catherine Yass. Her most recent interview was with Rachel Dickson and Sarah MacDougall.

Sarah is setting up 'Ladiezz do Comics' with Nicola Streeten, a comics reading group open to all, that explores autobiography and domestic drama in graphic novels.

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