Sarit Cohen is a graduate of the ANU School of Art (Ceramics). She completed her Diploma of Education(University of Canberra) and in this period was awarded the Doug Alexander Memorial Award for Decorative Surface. Recently has been received an honorary mention at 13 Int’l Ceramic Festival, Mino, Japan. She has completed residencies in Denmark, Switzerland, China and Japan.
These opportunities have significantly contributed to her work in the areas of porcelain manipulation and casting. She has contributed to numerous group and survey shows over the last 30 years, both nationally and internationally, notably in the USA, Denmark, Hungary and Japan.
Her works are held in private and public collections in these countries. Cohen’s work bears the influence of her childhood spent in Israel, and of her Turkish and Indian heritage. Her memories of the desert, its surfaces and dry atmosphere are constantly evidenced in her objects. Together with an increasing curiosity about her Indian background, these form the basis of her research. She says of her work ‘I feel very much rooted in ceramic history and I am very devoted to and dependent on my material and love the physical part of the whole process with clay and firing’.
2025 Small Sculpture Prize, Finalist, Strathnairn Arts Centre – Canberra - Australia
2024 13 International Ceramic Festival - Mino - Japan
2023 Craft +Design Canberra- Member Exhibition – Canberra - Australia
2023 HOLD – Belconnen Art Centre – Canberra, Australia
2023 GoingDeeper – LOFT 275 Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2020 CraftACT – Members Exhibition Members - Canberra, Australia
2019 Craft ACT – Visionaries – Members Exhibition Members - Canberra, Australia
2018 Craft ACT – The Void – Reimagining Enrico Taglietti - Canberra, Australia
2018 Clay Gulgong – World Stage and Emerging Artists Exhibitions
2018 Craft ACT – Placemaker – Members Exhibition Members - Canberra, Australia
2018 Mugged, May Space, Sydney, Australia
2018 World Stage, Clay Gulgong conference, Gulgong, NSW, Australia
2017 Ceramic Revision II, May Space, Sydney, Australia
2016 Craft ACT - Citizens of Craft - Accredited Professional Members - Canberra, Australia
2015 Canberra Potters’ Society – Surround/s - Canberra
2015 ANU Foyer Gallery – Belonging – Australian Ceramic Associations - Canberra
2015 Craft ACT – Stomping Ground - ACT Legislation Assembly - Canberra
2015 Nishi Gallery – “Protean” Claybodies - Canberra
2014 Stur Gallery – Eclectika- Ceramic Artistry for the Table - Braidwood
2014 Craft ACT – Awaken - Accredited Professional Members - Canberra
2014 Kerrie Lowe Gallery – 2014 Contemporary Porcelain - Sydney
2013 Craft ACT – Inhabit – Accredited Professional Members - Canberra Centenary
2012 Craft ACT – Signature – Accredited Professional Members - Canberra
2011 Craft ACT – Uncontained, Accredited Professional Members - Canberra
2011 Pan Gallery – Forming Words - Melbourne
2011 Cowra Regional Gallery – Cultural Connections - Cowra
2010 Craft ACT - Vessel, Accredited Professional Member – Canberra
2009 Craft ACT - Unravel, Accredited Professional Member – Canberra
2008 Ergon Energy Art Awards – Rockhampton Queensland – Canberra
2008 Symposium Print & Clay - Australian National University – Canberra
2008 Craft ACT – Placement – Canberra
2008 International Triennial of Silicate Art – Kecskemet - Hungary
2007 ANCA, Surface – Australian National Capital Artists – Canberra
2006 Craft ACT - Local Hand, Members Christmas show – Canberra
2006 Baltimore Clayworks Gallery, World Women: On the Horizon - USA
2006 Impact - Brisbane Gallery - Brisbane
2005 Watson Arts Centre Canberra - Form and function – Canberra
2019 Canberra City Framing Gallery – New Works – Canberra, Australia
2019 Drill Hall Gallery – The Void – DESIGN Canberra – Utopia – ANU Canberra, Australia
2015 Kaori Gallery – Canberra City Framing Gallery – New Works - Canberra
2013 Form Studio Gallery – Substance and the Lightness of Touch – Queanbeyan
2010 Belconnen Art Centre - China-in-China - Canberra
2008 Craft ACT - Placement - Canberra
2004 Watson Arts Centre Canberra - Recent work Sarit Cohen -- Canberra
2004 Neo Gallery - Brisbane, Layers - Brisbane
2002 Gallery 289 - Given Words - Canberra
2001 Copenhagen Denmark -Dansk Kunsthandvaerkare Danish craft Association - Denmark
2001 Craft ACT - Hybrid Life - Canberra
· Development of Colours of Dissent, a major design project for the 2026 Craft + Design Canberra Festival.
· Multiple small commissions for private collectors across the ACT and interstate.
2008 Jingdezhen Pottery Workshop, China
2002 Visiting Artist – Chur, Switzerland (art council of Graubunden)
2001 International Ceramic Centre, Skaelskor Denmark
Private collections across Australia, includingACT, NSW and Victoria.
Public holdings: Canberra Museum and Art Gallery, ACT Legislation Assembly.
· Long-standing member of Craft + Design Canberra (30+ years)
· Invited exhibitor in multiple curated programs across ACT
· Featured maker in Craft + Design Canberra publications and annual showcase
2002 Doug Alexander Memorial Awards - Decorative Surface Award, Canberra Potter Society
2001 Doug Alexander Memorial Awards - Merit Award - Ceramics Art and Perception, Canberra
2020 Capital Art Patrons Organisation
2009 Arts ACT, Quick respond – Travel residency to China
2005 Arts ACT, Equipment Grant, purchase equipment
2001 Capital Art Patrons Organisation – Travelgrant
2000 Australian Capital Territory ACT Arts, Quick respond - Travel residency to Denmark
1998-1999 Graduate Diploma in Education University of Canberra
1988-1992 Bachelor of Visual Arts (Ceramics) Institute of the Arts, Australian National University
Website www.saritcohen.com.au
Craft and Design Canberra https://craftanddesigncanberra.org/collections/sarit-cohen
Australian Ceramic Directory https://australianceramics.com/search?q=sarit+cohen
Ceramics Art and Perception Issue78 2009 P3 to P7
Pottery in Australia vol.32/2 winter 1993 p.2 & p 47
The Journal of Australian ceramics pottery In Australia vol.44#1 2005 p57-61
Canberra Times News
23/10/93 Craft section - Kiss My Art, Spiral Arms Gallery
22/06/96 The Spirit Within, Beaver Gallery
10/07/96 Connected, ANCA Gallery ACT
05/10/96 Canberra School of Art Alumni 20th Anniversary
04/09/01 Hybrid Life, Craft ACT
18/04/02 Given Words, Gallery 289 ACT
22/04/02 Given Words, Gallery 289 ACT
12/03/04 Ceramics in Visual Dialogue
12/06/05 Relax section – Fine Form – Form & Function
01/07/08 Times 2 – Domesticity artfully portrayed – Placement
20/8/2010 Times 2 – Cultural Riches
Muse Canberra's Art Monthly - June issue 2001, Centrum - Artist-in Residency in Denmark
The Australian Jewish News - Sydney edition
04/04/97 Turn the Soil
10/04/98
31/07/98
24/08/01 Hybrid Life
Sturt Gallery, Mittagong - www.sturt.nsw.edu.au
Craft ACT, Canberra - www.craftact.org.au
