About
Sara Choudhrey is a London-based artist and researcher, using an investigative process to explore themes of space, place, heritage and belonging through visual and material culture.
Sara’s multi-disciplinary practice involves visual analysis in a variety of media, referencing geometry, natural forms, artefacts and architecture from the local to the global. Sara is interested in human engagement with spaces, natural and man-made, considering their impact on each other within and beyond their immediate time and place. Her works include large-scale installations, paintings in hybrid media, works on paper, and interactive and projected animations.
Sara has completed a number of commissions including for Graves Art Gallery as part of Sheffield Museums, MKIAC Digital Light: Code Makers at Bletchley Park and Manifesting the Unseen at Southampton City Art Gallery. Internationally she has exhibited at the Royal Botanic Garden in Edinburgh, and the 25th and 18th editions of the Islamic Arts Festival at the Sharjah Art Museum in the UAE.
Sara’s works are held in a number of public and institutional collections including Leighton House Museum, Borough Road Collection Archive, Imperial Charity and CW+ Trust. Sara has exhibited across the UK and internationally, including at Saatchi Gallery, London as part of the Journeys: Healing Arts exhibition (2021) and Digital Futures in association with the V&A (2015).
In 2024 Sara was shortlisted for the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize, following her 2023 shortlisting in their Working Drawing Award. In 2022 Sara was a finalist for the Aesthetica Art Prize.
Sara’s multi-faceted approach has led to conducting practice-led research on Islamic visual culture from medieval Spain and Portugal, Mughal era sites in Pakistan, and Islamic art in the British Arts & Crafts Movement and beyond.
Her curatorial project ELEMENTS, which highlights abstract art through a more globalised lens, has received support from Arts Council England.
Sara has recently been awarded a British Art Network Bursary Award 2025-26 in association with Tate and Paul Mellon Centre. She holds a Masters in Digital Arts from Camberwell College of Arts (UAL) and a PhD in Digital Arts from the University of Kent.