Bio

Sarah Low is a New Zealand born contemporary painter, based in Melbourne, Naarm. 

Sarah studied fine art in the UK in the 90s, when painting was dead, and anyway, the class was full. She specialised in installation and started painting after moving to Australia.

Sarah has held solo exhibitions in Melbourne since 2022, and been invited to participate in a number of group shows. She is the recipient of the Heart of the Bush Artist’s Encouragement Prize, 2023, and in 2024 has been nominated for the Soho Art Prize, Harden Landscape Prize and Bayside Painting Prize.

Focusing primarily on landscape painting, Sarah is interested in an honest observation of the world around her. She paints en plein air, using oils, immersed in and responding to the particular colour, light and energy of a specific time and place.

Enjoying the physicality of the experience and the challenges working plein air brings, Sarah's work explores the enduring power of nature. She sees the act of deep observation as a means to pay attention to, and pay her respects to, the land.

A qualified and experienced teacher, she currently teaches visual arts to secondary school students.