Sara Noble
Sara Noble is an Artist Teacher and Textile Maker. She utilises layering of mark making and textures with a passion for colour, through a range of drawing, printmaking, crochet, stitch, collage and photography. Sara is drawn to the process of making and experimenting with different materials and techniques. Her work uncovers a sense of identity, inner emotions and relationships to people and places.
Beyond teaching Art and Design in secondary schools for nearly 10 years, her creative practice has predominantly taken shape through involvement with Sketchbook Circle, a collaboration with other artist educators to build upon a creative dialogue sharing and mailing a sketchbook back and forth each month for a year.
Sara has taken part in a number of group exhibitions, most recently with the Oxford Art Society. She has used her knitting machine as an installation piece at the Institute of Education, created site-specific crochet as an installation for The Crypt Gallery, at St Pancras Church, and has had her screen-printed illustrations published in Elle magazine and on the London Underground.
She graduated with a PGCE in Secondary Art and Design IOE (2014), BA Textile Art Winchester School of Art (2002), she has also studied at the Kawashima School of Textiles, Kyoto. and has developed studio practice of Machine Knitting at Morley College, London and Screen Printing at Print Club London. Now based in Oxford with her family, after 12 years of living and working in London.
