Sarah Myerscough (pronounced Myers/co) is an
English artist and sculptor, based in
Blackpool
Blackpool is a seaside resort in Lancashire, England. Located on the North West England, northwest coast of England, it is the main settlement within the Borough of Blackpool, borough also called Blackpool. The town is by the Irish Sea, betw ...
,
Lancashire.
Background
Myerscough attended
St Mary's Sixth Form College, Blackpool from 1996 to 1998, where she gained an
A-level
The A-Level (Advanced Level) is a subject-based qualification conferred as part of the General Certificate of Education, as well as a school leaving qualification offered by the educational bodies in the United Kingdom and the educational aut ...
in Art and Design. She then gained a
BTEC Foundation National Diploma in Art and Design at
Blackpool and The Fylde College in 1999 and spent the next three years at
Lancaster University
Lancaster University (legally The University of Lancaster) is a public university, public research university in Lancaster, Lancashire, Lancaster, Lancashire, England. The university was established in 1964 by royal charter, as one of several pla ...
where, in 2002, she gained a
Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in
Fine art: Practice and Theory. In June 2002 her work featured in the Student Degree Show at the
Peter Scott Gallery.
Career
After graduating from Lancaster University in 2002, she started work in March 2003 as a model maker and artist at
Blackpool Pleasure Beach, 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
Blackpool Illuminations
Blackpool Illuminations is an annual lights festival, founded in 1879 and first switched on 18 September that year, held each autumn in the British seaside resort of Blackpool on the Fylde Coast in Lancashire.
Also known locally as The Lights ...
. The first Illuminations feature that Myerscough worked on was the
Ali Baba tableau in 2005.
In 2006 she helped remake the
Alice in Wonderland
''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'' (commonly ''Alice in Wonderland'') is an 1865 English novel by Lewis Carroll. It details the story of a young girl named Alice who falls through a rabbit hole into a fantasy world of anthropomorphic creatur ...
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
Doctor Who
''Doctor Who'' is a British science fiction television series broadcast by the BBC since 1963. The series depicts the adventures of a Time Lord called the Doctor, an extraterrestrial being who appears to be human. The Doctor explores the u ...
section with new pictures and 3-D models.
[ ]
She also worked with
interior designer and
television personality
Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen 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
Image:Blackpool 045.jpg, Dr Who - Illuminations outside Blackpool Sea-Life Centre - © GNU
Image:Blackpool Transport Services Limited car number 630.jpg, Decodance - Illuminations in front of Blackpool Tower - Â
David Ingham
Image:The Big One-Blackpool.jpg, Concertina Critters - Illuminations in front of Blackpool Pleasure Beach - Â
Henry Brett
References
External links
Sarah Myerscough websiteOfficial Blackpool Illuminations website
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English installation artists
English women sculptors
English women painters
People from Blackpool
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century British women artists
21st-century English women
21st-century English people