Sara Osman

2024

Biography

b. 1999, London, United Kingdom

2022-2023, MA Sculpture, Royal College of Art, London

2018-2021, BA Fine Art, Loughborough University, Loughborough

2017-2018, BA Industrial Design, Loughborough University, Loughborough

Sara Osman’s installations draw inspiration from historic, post-war, or abandoned cities in the Middle East, exploring themes of grief, belonging, and home. Osman’s debut solo show in London at Arbeit Studios opens October (2024). Received the Phaedra Makridou Scholarship to support her MA Sculpture at RCA (2022). Awarded the Edward Sharp Prize where Loughborough University Art Collection acquired the painting ‘Syria’ (2021). Major group exhibitions include ‘Linger in Silence’, Willesden Gallery, London (2023); ‘unseen wounds’, Crypt Gallery, London (2023); Winter Sculpture Park, Gallery no.32, Bexley (2023); Thorp Stavri: The Factory Project, London, (2021): ‘Open: The People’s exhibition’, Leicester Museum (2019).

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