Sarah Myerscough (pronounced Myers/co) is an

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artist and sculptor, based in

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Background

Myerscough attended St Mary's Sixth Form College, Blackpool from 1996 to 1998, where she gained an

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in Art and Design. She then gained a BTEC Foundation National Diploma in Art and Design at

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in 1999 and spent the next three years at

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where, in 2002, she gained a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in

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: Practice and Theory. In June 2002 her work featured in the Student Degree Show at the

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Gallery.

Career

After graduating from Lancaster University in 2002, she started work in March 2003 as a model maker and artist at

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, where she designed and created sculptures for rides as well as decorating shops and restaurants within the park with murals and sculptures. In October and November, her work was featured in a joint exhibition with three colleagues from the Pleasure Beach, "Art in the Making Exhibition" at the Globe Gallery. In June 2005 she started working as an artist for

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. The first Illuminations feature that Myerscough worked on was the

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tableau in 2005. In 2006 she helped remake the

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tableau as well as painting a sponsorship board for the North West Air Ambulance charity and also work on two more tableau's - Fire and Water and Pirate. In 2007 she designed and painted a new back scene for the Egyptian Tableau and Local Heads, a new section which features photographs of local people (including one of Myerscough). In 2008 she extended the

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section with new pictures and 3-D models. She also worked with

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er and

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personality

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when he designed two new features, the "Decodance" road feature in 2007, for which she carved and painted half of the figures and then in 2008 the "Venus Reborn" tableau which has water fountains as well as lighting and classical music. It was the first theatre tableau to be created, with a 15-minute show of sound, light and water effects.

Gallery

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Henry Brett

References

External links

Sarah Myerscough websiteOfficial Blackpool Illuminations website
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