Sarah returned to ECA to continue her artistic education after being awarded the Andrew Grant Scholarship to study on the Illustration - MA programme
After graduating Sarah has continued to pursue work in the illustration industry amid the challenges of the global pandemic. Additionally, a copy of the book Sarah wrote and illustrated during her time at ECA is now housed in the British Library.
Why I chose to study Illustration - MA
I studied Painting at ECA and graduated in 2014, before coming back as an Artist in Residence with the Illustration department a couple of years later. This time I really understood how lucky I was to have all that space, all that time, all those facilities and all those people. I knew that I would love to do a masters one day, and my only option was to try and secure funding. I was not sure that I would get it, but it turns out that my ‘if I don’t apply then I definitely won’t get it’ philosophy came in handy, and I was lucky enough to be awarded an Andrew Grant Scholarship to study on the MA Illustration programme. From the time I had already spent there, I knew there was so much more to learn from the tutors and the technicians, and from being part of a studio again. I did not just choose to go to ECA once when I was 19, I chose to do it all again, and again.