Sax Impey works from no.8 Porthmeor Studios, part of a historic studio complex overlooking Porthmeor beach in St Ives, Cornwall.

Since 2005 he has produced work derived almost exclusively from experiences at sea. A qualified RYA Yachtmaster, he has sailed many thousands of nautical  miles delivering yachts at sea in many parts of the world, working for TV Yachtdelivery.

Whilst maintaining a solo studio practice he has also engaged in numerous collaborative projects, including film, theatre, performance and installation works.

He has been exhibiting with Millennium Gallery, now Anima - Mundi, since 2002, and was elected an RWA Academician in 2012.

His paintings are in numerous collections including The Arts Council, Warwick University, the Connaught Hotel alongside many other private collections worldwide.

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2021  Atlantic Anima Mundi

2019  Pacific  Anima Mundi

2017 The boatman calls , Anima  Mundi

2015  Auguries, Millennium

2013  The Light and the Veil, Millennium

2012  Storm Drawings, Millennium

Storm, CGP, London

2011  Storm, Millennium

2009  Voyage, Millennium

2007  Sea, New Millennium Gallery, St Ives

2005  Catena, One0Two Gallery, London

2004  Events, New Millennium Gallery, St Ives

2002  Labyrinths, New Millennium Gallery, St Ives

2000  Transition, Newlyn Art Gallery

 

SELECTED MIXED EXHIBITIONS

 

2019 Cash is King 2  Saatchi Gallery, London

RWA Open  RWA, Bristol

2018  Cash is King, Saatchi Gallery, London

2017  the collective, House of St Barnabas, London

2016  Green Creates, Hoxton Arches, London

From Silence, The Herrick Gallery, London

RWA @The Atkinson, Atkinson Gallery, Somerset

2015  In Search of the Miraculous, Newlyn Art Gallery

Drawn, RWA Bristol

2014  Porthmeor past and present, Falmouth Art Gallery

Interspace, Erarta Museum, St Petersburg, Russia

The Power of the Sea, RWA Bristol

2013  Threadneedle Prize,     Mall Galleries, London

Limbo, Truro

Drawn, RWA, Bristol

2012  NOAC, Prince's Foundation Gallery, London

2008  Drawing Show, NSA, Exchange, Penzance

2007  Art Now Cornwall, Tate St Ives

The St Ives School 1997-2007, Howard Gardens Gallery, Cardiff

2006  Fragments, Cafe Gallery Projects, London

Fragments, Tom Thompson Gallery, Owen Sound, Canada

2003  Starting a Collection, Art First Contemporary Art, London

2002  Constructed, Newlyn Art Gallery

2001  Sax Impey, Richard Nott, Ged Quinn, Fermyn Woods, Northants

2000  Ark 2000, Dilston Grove Church, London

1999  The New St Ives Artists, Maidstone Museum and Art Gallery

1998  Common Ground: Sax Impey and Richard Nott, Book Gallery, St Ives

1997  Kunstbrucke, Dock 11, Berlin

Landmarks, Cafe Gallery Projects, London

1996  Drawing Towards the End of a Century, Newlyn Art Gallery

 

RESIDENCIES AND COLLABORATIONS

 

2016  with Red Earth: 'Genius Loci', Berrington Hall, Herefordshire

2012  Estuary Lab, Dyfi, Wales

2008  with Red Earth: ‘Longshore Drift’, Suffolk

2007  with Red Earth: ‘Enclosure’, Dorset

2005  with Red Earth: ‘Vanishing Point’, Birling Gap, Sussex

with Red Earth: ‘Jalan’, Trafalgar Square, London

with Red Earth: ‘Geograph ¯ Trace’, Birling Gap, Sussex

2004   with Jony Easterby: Samphire Tower, Samphire Hoe, Dover

1997  Kunstbrucke, Berlin

 

COLLECTIONS

 

Arts Council Collection

Warwick University

The Connaught Hotel

Terence Disdale Design

Travelex

 

Private collections worldwide

 

PUBLICATIONS AND SELECTED PRESS

 

The boatman calls, Anima - Mundi

Auguries, Millennium / George Monbiot

The Power of the Sea, RWA

The Light and the Veil, Aesthetica Magazine / Sophie Kazan

The Light and the Veil, Millennium

Porthmeor Studios and Cellars, Long and Kentish

Storm, Millennium / Owen Sheers

Art of the Sea (In Pictures), Owen Sheers, BBC4

Art Now Cornwall, Susan Daniel-McElroy, Tate Publishing

Sea, New Millennium Gallery

New Face of Cornish Art, Laura Gascoigne, The Times

On the Very Edge of the Ocean, Ben Tufnell, Tate Publishing

Events, New Millennium Gallery

Arts Council Collection Acquisitions, 1989-2002

ARTNSA, NSA Publications

Labyrinths, New Millennium Gallery

Behind the Canvas, S Brittain/S Cook