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Sarah Misselbrook, born 1977 in Southampton, England. Misselbrook studied at Nottingham Trent University and received a first class honours degree in Fine Art. At Portsmouth School of Art, Misselbrook’s foundation year saw the beginning of her multi media practice surrounding such issues as the body, the artist and consumption.

After graduating in 2000, Sarah Misselbrook returned to Southampton to continue extensive historical and contemporary research as well as producing regular art works for exhibitions and commissions. Sarah provides workshops, drawing classes and sculptural commissions for schools and colleges.

Misselbrook’s practice involves digital photography, sculpture, casting, and drawing. Her 3D works are a play on traditional sculptural concerns, the process of adding or taking away. However, this is not achieved using stone or wood but chocolate or soap, degradable or even edible materials which underline the transient state of the body.

The final works show the seductive yet repellent nature of human anatomy. They embody ways of externalising a very internalised
self-analysis of the body personal.

Misselbrook has not only established interest in gallery based artwork but more importantly in the practice of art making, audience participation and theoretical debate within the community. ‘Creation in itself is a positive process and I feel it remains underestimated. The passion and enthusiasm I have for my subject evokes creativity, imagination and motivation from others.’ (SM)

Sarah Misselbrook’s art practice has strongly developed over the last 7 years with numerous solo and group shows worldwide. Sarah has been given many exhibition opportunities for new art work to be viewed in both the gallery environment and the inspirational backdrop of the Artvaults show in 2004.

With support from Arts Council England, a new body of work entitled ‘Absolution’ was on show throughout the summer of 2004 in Quilter’s Vault, one of the underground medieval vaults within the historic walls of Southampton, and saw over 15,000 visitors.

With further funding from Arts Council England, Misselbrook produced a site specific body of work for a solo show at the bargate monument gallery, Southampton, UK. Entitled 'Affirmation', the work saw over 5,000 visitors open to the public in May 2006.

Misselbrook’s work has featured on television and in national and international press, which has further heightened the anticipation for new works and forthcoming shows.

In 2007, Misselbrook completed her Post Graduate Diploma in Fine Art at Cyprus College of Art, Lemba, Pafos. Misselbrook's stay in Cyprus saw two group exhibitions, in Pafos and Limassol with the 'ela,ela' artist group. This body of work toured to La Viande gallery in London, UK in September 2007.

Misselbrook's figurative canvases using food colouring were shown at TC's Rock Bar in Pafos in October 2007. A group exhibition at the En Plo gallery entitled 'How to tell yourself from a television' in February 2008 received extensive press coverage and successful sales to the Cypriot market.

Sarah Misselbrook has now returned to the UK to continue her new body of work.