SI SAPSFORD MRSS

Si Sapsford is a London-based sculptor whose practice spans kinetic installation, ceramic fabrication, photography, drawing, and moving image. Her work explores the politics of place, movement, and trauma through objects and installations that embody collapse, fragility, and resistance. Recent work includes kinetic sculptures, experimental ceramic processes, and the Glass Diaries series, which uses engraved text and image to surface hidden histories.

Her work has been exhibited internationally at the National Portrait Gallery, Sheffield Galleries & Museums Trust, the Zabludowicz Collection, and venues across Australia, Brazil, and Europe.

EDUCATION

2011 — Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, University of East London
1999 — MA Sculpture, Royal College of Art
1997 — BA (Hons) Fine Art, First Class, Chelsea College of Art

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2026 — Assembly, Sunderland
2025 — Still Life, River & Rowing Museum, Henley-on-Thames
2025 — Unearthing the Archive, Both Gallery, London
2025 — Things Fall, Exeter Phoenix Gallery
2024 — Antimonumental, Thames-Side Studios Gallery, London
2023 — Mother Art Prize, Zabludowicz Collection, London
2023 — The Portrait Show, DOMOBAAL Contemporary Art, London
2022 — Sky Portrait Artist of the Year Exhibition, Compton Verney
2020 — Change Makers: Ways of Protest, Elysium Gallery
2017 — Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London
2016 — Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London
2014 — Witness, Lynden Gallery, Melbourne
2005 — Si Sapsford: Magnificent Collapse, Monash University, Melbourne
2002 — Fig 1, DOMOBAAL Contemporary Art, London

FILM AND MOVING IMAGE

2012 — Kilburn Film Festival, London
2006 — Late at Tate, Tate Britain, London
2003 — A Short History of The Band of Nod / Hand Luggage, K3 Project Space, Zurich

AWARDS AND RECOGNITION

2022 — Semi-finalist, BADA Art Prize
2020 — Semi-finalist and Heat Winner, Sky Portrait Artist of the Year
2010 — Second Prize (Photography), National Open Art Competition
2000 — BP Travel Award, National Portrait Gallery
1998 — Battersea Park Annual Award

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS AND MEDIA

2023 — Mother Art Prize: 4th Edition
2018 — Civil Unrest
2015 — 500 Portraits: 25 Years of the BP Portrait Award
2002 — Jerwood Drawing Prize Exhibition Catalogue

PROFESSIONAL ROLES

2026–Present — Presenter and Producer, Henley Radio and Podcast
2023–2026 — Gallery Educator, National Portrait Gallery, London
2000–2023 — Senior Lecturer in Fine Art, University of East London