Awards

• Short-listed for British Book Design and Production Awards: Graphic Novel 2019
• Short-listed for Communication Arts Illustration Competition 2020

Overview

The Book of Sarah is missing from the bible, so artist Sarah Lightman sets out to make her own: questioning religion, family, motherhood and what it takes to be an artist in this quietly subversive visual autobiography from NW3.The Jerusalem Bible, Ellerdale Road, St Paul's Girls School and a baby monitor: books and streets, buildings and objects ll this bildungsroman set in Hampstead, North West London. Sarah Lightman has been drawing her life since she was a 22-year-old undergraduate at The Slade School of Art. The Book of Sarah traces her journey from modern Jewish orthodoxy to a feminist Judaism, as she searches between the complex layers of family and family history that she inherited and inhabited. While the act of drawing came easily, the letting go of past failures, attachments and expectations did not. It is these that form the focus of Sarah's astonishingly beautiful pages, as we bear witness to her making the world her own.

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`Lightman is clearly a tour de force'. Hillary Chute, Images `The real power in the work comes from Lightman's wit and imagination, which has a lightness that belies the seriousness of the existential questions within.' Nadia Valman and Rachel Gar eld, Jewish Quarterly.`Sarah Lightman is like the poster-child for a new kind of feminist activist- scholar, artist, curator, and cheerleader for comics that reveal and shape new forms of Jewish consciousness'. Ariel Kahn, Jewish Quarterly

'A wonderful, absorbing, enjoyable book. I love the biblical reference-this is a sacred book. It's like making a new intimate friend AND it will help people who have been through their own rites of passage or need to. I love it.' Philippa Perry; `Lightman is clearly a tour de force'. Hillary Chute, Images `The real power in the work comes from Lightman's wit and imagination, which has a lightness that belies the seriousness of the existential questions within.' Nadia Valman and Rachel Gar eld, Jewish Quarterly.`Sarah Lightman is like the poster-child for a new kind of feminist activist- scholar, artist, curator, and cheerleader for comics that reveal and shape new forms of Jewish consciousness'. Ariel Kahn, Jewish Quarterly; 'Deeply absorbing... truly haunting art... what will most enthrall read ers is [Sarah Lightman's] lumi nous imagery, beau ti ful ly ren der ing her inti mate rela tion to every day objects, indeli ble aspects of fam i ly life, reli gion and cul ture.' Ranen Omer-Sherman, Jewish Book Council; Her lyrical and candid confessionals question and resolve how family, religion and art have shaped her, from Jewish Orthodoxy to feminist Judaism, from daughter to mother, from longing to belonging.' Jewish Renaissance Magazine; 'Lightman proves herself not simply an accomplished artist, but specifically an accomplished comics author. While the art world is full of excellent artists who could fill a similarly sized book with equally well-crafted drawings, few have the comics savvy to construct the sort of complex narratives and image-text relationships that Lightman achieves in The Book of Sarah.' Pop Matters

Author Information

Sarah Lightman is a London-based artist, curator and writer. She completed an Art Foundation course at Central St Martins, attended The Slade School of Art for her BA and MFA, where she won The Slade Prize and The Slade Life Drawing Prize, and has a PhD from University of Glasgow in women's autobiographical comics. She has extensively published her research. Her artwork has been exhibited in museums and galleries internationally. Sarah co-curated Graphic Details: Confessional Comics by Jewish Women, an internationally touring exhibition of 18 comic artists, that opened at 9 museums over 6 years. She edited Graphic Details: Jewish Women's Confessional Comics in Essays and Interviews (McFarland 2014), that was awarded The Susan Koppelman Prize for Best Feminist Anthology (2015) and The Will Eisner Award for Best Scholarly Publication (2015), an Association of Jewish Studies/Jordan Schnitzer Book Award for Jews and The Arts (2016). Sarah has experience teaching and lecturing at undergraduate and graduate level including at the Universities of Glasgow (2018 and 2011-12), Roehampton (2011, 2012, 2018) and London College of Communications (2017). She has acted as an External Examiner for an MA at California College of the Arts. In addition, Sarah has led comics workshops at the Jewish Museum, London (2018), Glasgow Jewish Book Week (2018), JW3, the Jewish Community Centre for London (2012, 2013) and Koffler Centre for the Arts, Toronto (2011). She has also convened a Comics Study Day at The Slade School of Art (2014) and will be teaching at The Art Academy, London, in 2019. Sarah also chaired the Women in Comics Conferences in 2009 and 2010, and, in 2009, co-founded Laydeez do Comics with Nicola Streeten, the most influential comics forum in the UK.

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