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

 

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