The Glasgow School of Art

Dr Sarah Tripp is a writer and artist based in the School of Fine Art at The Glasgow School of Art. Sarah teaches Master of Fine Art. She welcomes enquiries from prospective PhD students in any of her research interests: writing within multidisciplinary artistic practice, reflective methodologies in writing, writing characters, relational psychoanalytic theory, independent publishing.

Before working at GSA, Sarah held teaching positions at Goldsmiths, Piet Zwart Institute and Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art. She has a PhD from Edinburgh School of Art (2017) and prior to that completed a BA in Fine Art at The Glasgow School of Art and an MA in Fine Art at Chelsea College of Art before returning to Glasgow to join the committee of the Transmission Gallery.

Sarah’s research focuses on writing as relational research. She is author of Guitar! (Bookworks, 2021), The Self-Illuminating Pen (MAP, 2020) and You Are of Vital Importance (Bookworks, 2014). She is currently writing a book on Elvira Shatayeva, the Russian professional mountain climber. She has contributed pieces to F. R. David, Happy Hypocrite and Pist Protta. Her works have been commissioned by Camden Arts Centre, Glasgow International, Cove Park and The Suttie Arts Space and her research has been supported by various grants and awards including Creative Scotland and The Arts Council.

As a writer and artist she develops programmes with a wide range of cultural organisations. Most recently, she has programmed Invitation to Forms with Dr Kate Briggs for Glasgow International, Making People Up with LUX Scotland for the Tramway and What We Make With Words and Making Film with the CCA Glasgow. Sarah’s pedagogical research is concerned with the specific challenges of postgraduate education, supervision and mentorship. From 2013 onwards she developed new methods of configuring and conducting tutorials and delivering writing workshops.