Dr Sarah Simblet is a trained fine artist who specialises in drawing, and has written and illustrated three major art reference books that are published worldwide by Dorling Kindersley. (See below.) Sarah exhibits her work through her publications. As an academic consultant she has co-selected or contributed to national and international art and science exhibitions at venues such as the Wellcome Trust and Science Museum, and in broadcasting she contributes regularly to BBC radio and television debates about the relationship between science and art. In 2005 she presented Life Class on BBC 3 and was a judge of the Jerwood Drawing Prize. Sarah is an academic member of Wolfson College, Oxford.
Sarah wrote her Ph.D (Bristol 1998) on the European art history and social history of human dissection. She is Tutor in Anatomy at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, University of Oxford, and a guest lecturer at Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, where as part of the ‘Performing Medicine’ programme organised by the Clod Ensemble, she teaches morphological anatomy and physiology through drawing and art history to medical students and professionals. Sarah has a passion for teaching and public speaking. She works with children and adults at the National Gallery and The Royal Collection, and also surgeons at the Royal Society of Medicine, youth offenders at Feltham Prison and looked after children in Oxfordshire.
