Bio
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