Sarah Lee Michaelides was born in London in 1951. She studied at the Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts (BA Hons, 1973) and completed postgraduate studies in Sculpture at Manchester Polytechnic. In 1974, she received the Gulbenkian Scholarship to the British School at Rome, where she lived and worked until 1982, before moving to Cyprus. She now lives and works in Nicosia.
Her work has been exhibited internationally and is held in private and public collections across Cyprus, Italy, France, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Hong Kong, Australia, New Zealand, and the USA.
Institutional collections include the Accra Medical School (Ghana), the Cultural Foundation of the Bank of Cyprus, the National Gallery of Cyprus, the Costas and Rita Severis Foundation, and the Archaeological Research Unit, University of Cyprus, among others.