Books by Sarah Lightman

Sarah Lightman is a London-based artist, curator and writer. She completed an Art Foundation course at Central St Martins, attended The Slade School of Art for her BA and MFA, where she won The Slade Prize and The Slade Life Drawing Prize, and has a PhD from University of Glasgow in women's autobiographical comics.. Her artwork has been exhibited in museums and galleries internationally. The Book of Sarah will be published by Myriad in 2019. Sarah has experience teaching and lecturing at undergraduate and graduate level including at the Universities of Glasgow (2018 and 2011-12), Roehampton (2011, 2012, 2018) and London College of Communications (2017). She has acted as an External Examiner for an MA at California College of the Arts. In addition, Sarah has led comics workshops at the Jewish Museum, London (2018), Glasgow Jewish Book Week (2018), JW3, the Jewish Community Centre for London (2012, 2013) and Koffler Centre for the Arts, Toronto (2011). She has also convened a Comics Study Day at The Slade School of Art (2014) and will be teaching at The Art Academy, London, in 2019. Sarah also chairs the Women in Comics Conferences and co-directs Laydeez do Comics with Nicola Streeten. The most influential comics forum in the UK, Laydeez do Comics groups now meet regularly in the US, Ireland and Canada.