Sarah Lowndes


Sarah Lowndes is a writer and curator based in Norwich, where she is also Research Fellow at Norwich University of the Arts. Lowndes is Director of Kunsthalle Cromer and contributes to the Public Programme of the Sainsbury Centre at the University of East Anglia. Lowndes's research focusses upon artist-led projects, interdisciplinary and performance-related practice and contemporary art. A lecturer at Glasgow School of Art between 2002 and 2015, Lowndes has written extensively on post-war art, music and politics in Glasgow in publications including Studio 58: Women Artists in Glasgow Since World War II, Social Sculpture: The Rise of the Glasgow Art Scene and "The Glasgow Scene", The History of British Art, Volume III. Other single author books authored by Lowndes include All Art is Political: Writings on Performative Art, The DIY Movement in Art, Music and Publishing: Subjugated Knowledges and Contemporary Artists Working Outside the City: Creative Retreat. Lowndes co-edited Actions: The Image of the World Can Be Different, with Andrew Nairne and edited Like the Sea I Think: New Marine Writing from East Anglia.
Lowndes has contributed to Frieze, Art on Paper, Untitled, MAP, 2HB, Spike Art Quarterly and Afterall and to catalogues for international institutions, including Richard Wright, Robert Rauschenberg: Botanical Vaudeville and Dieter Roth: Diaries. Her curatorial projects include "Three Blows", a weekend of experimental acoustic performance by visual artists and musicians, the symposium Subject in Process: Feminism and Art the international group exhibition Votive at CCA Glasgow and the all-women performance event Urlibido. Her curatorial projects include the sculpture park "Dialogue of Hands" and Studio 58: Women Artists in Glasgow Since WWII and she was also the editor of art magazine The Burning Sand.
Lowndes is married to 2009 Turner Prize winner Richard Wright.