ABOUT
Sarah Balcombe received her Bachelor of Arts in Architecture and her Master of Arts from Cambridge University, followed by a postgraduate diploma in Architecture from the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London. Sarah is interested in memory and absence, particularly how places imprint upon their inhabitants, and how landscape and architecture emotionally inhabit. She paints configurations of external spaces, carving into a canvas of oil and acrylic, applying, removing and layering material. Her mark-making derives from an interpretation of the natural ruggedness, resilience and yet fragile nature of the environment.
Born in London, England and drawing inspiration from coastal conditions, landscape has been Sarah’s singular continuity. It has provided infinite, yet eroding iconography. “I could lose myself for days in the cycle and rhythm of color to monochrome, and back again. I see myself as a distiller, condensing and then exploding that narrative."
Sarah is a Guild Member of Silvermine Galleries where she received the Award of Merit for PAINT2021, and has been included in multiple juried shows. Her work is available directly at [email protected] through Silvermine Galleries and on Artnet. In the UK Sarah's work has been exhibited at Cambridge University, The Bartlett, UCL and at Central St Martins School of Art. In the US her art has been exhibited at the Ely Center of Contemporary Art in New Haven, at Carriage Barns Art Center, New Canaan and at the Bendheim Gallery and The Greenwich Arts Council in Greenwich, where she also ran a series of art workshops for elementary and high school students on landscape and identity. In NY Sarah has exhibited at the Garrison Art Center and Pelham Art Center. As Assistant Curator of the Greenwich Art Council she co-curated numerous civic, community and art events, led art tours and designed exhibitions celebrating cultural heritage, the environment and identity.
Sarah’s art can be viewed at www.sarahbalcombe.com and @manhattan_modernist.
Offering detailed analysis of art and architecture, Sarah is founding editor of manhattanmodernist.com and her research on contemporary artists, including Alexander Calder and Alex Katz has been published at Forward.com. Her Cambridge University publications include An Examination of Bramante's Cortile del Belvedere in Rome, and Eric Mendelsohn's Projects. Sarah's thesis on Jerusalem's Supreme Court Building was supervised by Sir Peter Cook at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London.
EXHIBITIONS:
2025 Guild Summer Salon, Silvermine Galleries, CT.
2024 Guild Summer Salon, Silvermine Galleries.
2024 Every Picture Tells a Story, Silvermine Galleries.
2023 Summer Salon for Guild Members, Silvermine Galleries.
2022 Summer Salon for Guild Members, Silvermine Galleries.
2022 SHE IS RISING, benefitting LiveGirl, Carriage Barn Arts Center, New Canaan, CT.
2022 Perfect/Imperfect:The Next Century, Curator Lilly Wei, Silvermine Galleries.
2022 Spectrum: RENEWAL, Juror James Barron. Carriage Barns.
2022 New Members 2022, Silvermine Galleries.
2021 Summer Salon for Guild Members, Silvermine Galleries.
2021 SHE IS RISING, benefitting LiveGirl, Carriage Barn Arts Center.
2021 PAINT 2021, Juror/Curator Michelle Y. Loh, Silvermine Galleries, New Canaan, CT. Award of Merit for "Crossroads" painting.
2021 Embody, Curated by Krista Scenna, Ely Center of Contemporary Art (see Yale Daily News) .
2020 What Now? Ely Center of Contemporary Art.
2020 USPS Art Project Ely Center of Contemporary Art, New Haven.
2020 smallWORKS Garrison Art Center, Garrison, NY.
2020 USPS Art Project Pelham Art Center, Pelham, NY.
2019 Art to the Avenue, Miku, Greenwich Ave.
2018 Deconstruction, Bendheim Gallery.
2018 Art to the Avenue Makes a Stop at the Bendheim, Bendheim Gallery.
2018 Art for Health, Stamford Hospital, Stamford.
2018 Art to the Avenue, Saks Fifth Avenue, Greenwich.
2017 Flower Stories, Bendheim Gallery, Greenwich.
2017 Art to the Avenue, Richards, Greenwich, CT.
UK:
Central St Martins, London: Terrence Higgins Trust, AIDs campaign.
Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London: Summer Exhibition.
Cambridge University, Cambridge: Summer Exhibition.
AUTHORED ARTICLES:
ManhattanModernist: Matisse Musings at the Barnes
Forward.com: At the Age of 95, Alex Katz Finally Gets His Due
Forward.com: How Calder Transfixed Albert Einstein and Jean-Paul Sartre
UJA-JCC: True Colors: Ron Agam Studio Tour
Forward.com: OY! OOF! BLAH! An Artist's Guide to the Three Stages of Grief, April 2020
UJA JCC GJN: Dale Chihuly at The New York Botanical Gardens, June, 2017
For more ManhattanModernist articles: New York State of Mind, founding editor of blog since Sept 2017
PRESS:
CT Post: Silvermine Showcases Artists From Across the Globe
WAG Magazine: The "A" Word, October 1, 2019
The Greenwich Sentinel: Make Music Greenwich, June 21, 2019
Greenwich Time: Things to Do In and Around Greenwich: Art Makes a Stop at the Bendheim, May 2nd 2018
Greenwich Time: A Different Kind of Flower at 299, Oct 29, 2017
ARCHITECTURAL PROJECTS: (selected)
Residential:
Townhouse, Main St, Westport CT
Lake House, Burning Tree Rd, Greenwich CT
Star House, N. Tel Aviv
Guard's House, N. Tel Aviv
Penthouse Apartment, Jerusalem
Modernist Apartment, Tel Aviv
Modernist Townhouse, Shepherds Hill, Highgate, London
Edwardian Terraced Residence, Holmesdale Rd, Highgate, London
Garden Apartment, South Hampstead, London
Detached Georgian Residence, Hampstead, London
Commercial:
Morgan Stanley Dean Witter fit-out, Canary Wharf, Project Architect, London (Perkins + Will- Pringle Brandon)
Barclays BP1 Tower concept fit-out, Canary Wharf, Project Architect, London (Perkins + Will- Pringle Brandon)
Clerkenwell Media Firm Offices proposal, Project Architect, London (MoreySmith)
Bluewater Shopping Centre, Mall Team Architect, Dartford 1.7m sq ft (Benoy)
Bullring Development, Concept Architect, Birmingham (Benoy)
Sarah is a practicing member of the Royal Institute of British Architects and Architects Registration Board, since 1997.
Sarah Balcombe received her Bachelor of Arts in Architecture and her Master of Arts from Cambridge University, followed by a postgraduate diploma in Architecture from the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London. Sarah is interested in memory and absence, particularly how places imprint upon their inhabitants, and how landscape and architecture emotionally inhabit. She paints configurations of external spaces, carving into a canvas of oil and acrylic, applying, removing and layering material. Her mark-making derives from an interpretation of the natural ruggedness, resilience and yet fragile nature of the environment.
Born in London, England and drawing inspiration from coastal conditions, landscape has been Sarah’s singular continuity. It has provided infinite, yet eroding iconography. “I could lose myself for days in the cycle and rhythm of color to monochrome, and back again. I see myself as a distiller, condensing and then exploding that narrative."
Sarah is a Guild Member of Silvermine Galleries where she received the Award of Merit for PAINT2021, and has been included in multiple juried shows. Her work is available directly at [email protected] through Silvermine Galleries and on Artnet. In the UK Sarah's work has been exhibited at Cambridge University, The Bartlett, UCL and at Central St Martins School of Art. In the US her art has been exhibited at the Ely Center of Contemporary Art in New Haven, at Carriage Barns Art Center, New Canaan and at the Bendheim Gallery and The Greenwich Arts Council in Greenwich, where she also ran a series of art workshops for elementary and high school students on landscape and identity. In NY Sarah has exhibited at the Garrison Art Center and Pelham Art Center. As Assistant Curator of the Greenwich Art Council she co-curated numerous civic, community and art events, led art tours and designed exhibitions celebrating cultural heritage, the environment and identity.
Sarah’s art can be viewed at www.sarahbalcombe.com and @manhattan_modernist.
Offering detailed analysis of art and architecture, Sarah is founding editor of manhattanmodernist.com and her research on contemporary artists, including Alexander Calder and Alex Katz has been published at Forward.com. Her Cambridge University publications include An Examination of Bramante's Cortile del Belvedere in Rome, and Eric Mendelsohn's Projects. Sarah's thesis on Jerusalem's Supreme Court Building was supervised by Sir Peter Cook at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London.
EXHIBITIONS:
2025 Guild Summer Salon, Silvermine Galleries, CT.
2024 Guild Summer Salon, Silvermine Galleries.
2024 Every Picture Tells a Story, Silvermine Galleries.
2023 Summer Salon for Guild Members, Silvermine Galleries.
2022 Summer Salon for Guild Members, Silvermine Galleries.
2022 SHE IS RISING, benefitting LiveGirl, Carriage Barn Arts Center, New Canaan, CT.
2022 Perfect/Imperfect:The Next Century, Curator Lilly Wei, Silvermine Galleries.
2022 Spectrum: RENEWAL, Juror James Barron. Carriage Barns.
2022 New Members 2022, Silvermine Galleries.
2021 Summer Salon for Guild Members, Silvermine Galleries.
2021 SHE IS RISING, benefitting LiveGirl, Carriage Barn Arts Center.
2021 PAINT 2021, Juror/Curator Michelle Y. Loh, Silvermine Galleries, New Canaan, CT. Award of Merit for "Crossroads" painting.
2021 Embody, Curated by Krista Scenna, Ely Center of Contemporary Art (see Yale Daily News) .
2020 What Now? Ely Center of Contemporary Art.
2020 USPS Art Project Ely Center of Contemporary Art, New Haven.
2020 smallWORKS Garrison Art Center, Garrison, NY.
2020 USPS Art Project Pelham Art Center, Pelham, NY.
2019 Art to the Avenue, Miku, Greenwich Ave.
2018 Deconstruction, Bendheim Gallery.
2018 Art to the Avenue Makes a Stop at the Bendheim, Bendheim Gallery.
2018 Art for Health, Stamford Hospital, Stamford.
2018 Art to the Avenue, Saks Fifth Avenue, Greenwich.
2017 Flower Stories, Bendheim Gallery, Greenwich.
2017 Art to the Avenue, Richards, Greenwich, CT.
UK:
Central St Martins, London: Terrence Higgins Trust, AIDs campaign.
Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London: Summer Exhibition.
Cambridge University, Cambridge: Summer Exhibition.
AUTHORED ARTICLES:
ManhattanModernist: Matisse Musings at the Barnes
Forward.com: At the Age of 95, Alex Katz Finally Gets His Due
Forward.com: How Calder Transfixed Albert Einstein and Jean-Paul Sartre
UJA-JCC: True Colors: Ron Agam Studio Tour
Forward.com: OY! OOF! BLAH! An Artist's Guide to the Three Stages of Grief, April 2020
UJA JCC GJN: Dale Chihuly at The New York Botanical Gardens, June, 2017
For more ManhattanModernist articles: New York State of Mind, founding editor of blog since Sept 2017
PRESS:
CT Post: Silvermine Showcases Artists From Across the Globe
WAG Magazine: The "A" Word, October 1, 2019
The Greenwich Sentinel: Make Music Greenwich, June 21, 2019
Greenwich Time: Things to Do In and Around Greenwich: Art Makes a Stop at the Bendheim, May 2nd 2018
Greenwich Time: A Different Kind of Flower at 299, Oct 29, 2017
ARCHITECTURAL PROJECTS: (selected)
Residential:
Townhouse, Main St, Westport CT
Lake House, Burning Tree Rd, Greenwich CT
Star House, N. Tel Aviv
Guard's House, N. Tel Aviv
Penthouse Apartment, Jerusalem
Modernist Apartment, Tel Aviv
Modernist Townhouse, Shepherds Hill, Highgate, London
Edwardian Terraced Residence, Holmesdale Rd, Highgate, London
Garden Apartment, South Hampstead, London
Detached Georgian Residence, Hampstead, London
Commercial:
Morgan Stanley Dean Witter fit-out, Canary Wharf, Project Architect, London (Perkins + Will- Pringle Brandon)
Barclays BP1 Tower concept fit-out, Canary Wharf, Project Architect, London (Perkins + Will- Pringle Brandon)
Clerkenwell Media Firm Offices proposal, Project Architect, London (MoreySmith)
Bluewater Shopping Centre, Mall Team Architect, Dartford 1.7m sq ft (Benoy)
Bullring Development, Concept Architect, Birmingham (Benoy)
Sarah is a practicing member of the Royal Institute of British Architects and Architects Registration Board, since 1997.