Being on Kaurna Country, I acknowledge it’s people as the true owners. As sovereignty was never ceded, I work as a landscape architect on stolen land. This has responsibilities to these and all other Traditional Owners who’s land I may work and live on, to respect, listen, and learn. I am inspired to keep the spirit and magic in these ancient landscapes alive.

Sarah Haq is a landscape architect and illustrator living and working in Tarndanya (Adelaide). Born in England, her family migrated from the picturesque coast of Devon to Barngarla Country - the remote west coast of South Australia, where she grew up.

She has degrees in landscape architecture and fine arts (sculpture major) which has included studying in India and Mexico.

Sarah is interested in design in the public realm and how landscape architecture can fit sustainably in to a wider context within a community, a street, a city or landscape and the world. This exploration has involved the design of wide range of projects with a diverse range of community groups. She is particularly interested in marginalised spaces and marginalised people. This has led her to work in Sri Lanka with the Planning Institute of Australia / AusAID / Red Cross as an urban designer and to undertake a Master of Social Science (2015). Creative influences range from Missoni, M.I.A and artist Mohamed Melehi to the Australian desert.

She has worked on design projects in the public and private sectors specialising in public space and urban park design and sustainable transport projects with City of Unley Council, Hobsons Bay Council, City of Sydney, OCULUS , Brimbank City Council, City of Yarra , TCL, Clouston and others.

 She has lead design studios at RMIT landscape architecture department and Monash University MADA (Architecture).

Sarah is also an illustrator of comics and zines with a focus on printmaking with small press publishers. Artwork has been regularly tabled over the past few years at Other Worlds Zine Fair, Festival of the Photocopier and others.

Qualifications :

  • Bachelor of Landscape Architecture (Honours) 1999 - RMIT (Melbourne, Australia) and CEPT (Ahmedabad, India)

  • Bachelor of Fine Arts, Sculpture Major (Distinction) 2005 - RMIT and Universidad de las Americas (Puebla, Mexico)

  • Master of Social Science,  International Urban & Environmental Management 2015 - RMIT

Contact :

11sarahhaq11@gmail.com

www.sarahhaq.com

currently in Adelaide, Australia