Artists
- * Andjana Pachkova
- * Barbara Ryman
- * Black Pacha
- * Claire Primrose
- * Denis Clarke
- * Diane Appleby
- * Eden Lennox
- * Elizabeth Kelly
- * Gretal Ferguson
- * Harley Oliver
- * James Barker
- * Jill Crossley
- * Jo Wood
- * John Donegan
- * Margarita Sampson
- * Nicole Taubinger
- * Oscar Martin
- * Robin Lawrence
- * Shaelene Murray
- * Snem Yildirim
- * Spalding
- Alice Whish
- Bic Tieu
- Brendon Stewart
- Christel van der Laan
- Clare Hooper
- Derryn Tal
- Felicity Peters
- Felix Gill
- Fiona Meller
- Liza Feeney
- Merilyn Bailey
- Sally Simpson
- Sione Falemaka
- Tom Christophersen
- Vicki Mason
- Zoe Brand
Sally Simpson
Sally Simpson grew up by the sea in and now lives on a small farm outside of Canberra. She began her studies at the South Australian School of Art in 1982, graduating at the College of Fine Arts, Sydney and completed a Master of Philosophy in Sculpture at ANU School of Art in 2012. Simpson’s artworks are recordings of the interaction of humans and the land at a particular point in time as if for a future museum.
Solo Exhibition
Click Here Objects for an Unknown Future Museum 7th of Sept - 1st Oct 2016
Sally Simpson Coral Reliquary with Bird Skull, 2016. Found object, mixed media with stainless steel mount. 76 x 20 x 20cms Cephalopoda Reliquary with Stingray Bones 2016. Found objects, mixed media with stainless steel mount. 79 x 20 x 20cms
Click Here Venerated Remains 19th March - 12th April 2014
Simpson Sally - Venerated Remains Sculpture
Group Exhibition
Click Here Works on Paper - 1 Metre 11th June - 5th of July 2014
Sally Simpson - Mummified Fish 1 (detail)- Charcoal, mud, chalk on paper - 115cm x 51cm - $1,500
ARTIST STATEMENT
Sally Simpson makes personal ritual objects drawing on the legacy of traditions in which the figure is an object of power through which one hopes to influence or appeal to the spiritual world. Her artistic and philosophical preoccupations arise from 25 years of living on small acreage farms, observing relations between humans and the natural world.
Her process of making is part of the mediation between nature and culture, the art a by-product of a way to be in the world, a means of paying the kind of attention the sculptures themselves ask for. Using the materials of her immediate environment to embody and mediate her own place in it, she attempts to find a point of balance between confusing and contradictory value systems.
Collecting organic and man-made materials from specific sites she sorts them in her home studio while considering methods to build and connect them. Her use of finely crafted detail and unexpected methods enhance the other-worldly, museum artefact impression her sculptures create. These processes, such as stitching, crochet and applying adobe are time consuming and add a meditative quality to her work.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2016 Objects for an Unknown Future Museum, Stanley Street Gallery, Sydney
2016 Natural History: Lake Mokoan, Benalla Regional Gallery
2014 Precipice, Gallery Smith Project Space, Melbourne
2014 Venerated Remains, Stanley Street Gallery, Sydney
2013 Precipice, ANCA
2012 Artefacts and Specimens, ANU School of Art Gallery
2010 Artefacts: Lake Mokoan, ANU Foyer Gallery
AWARDS
2007 ANU Student Drawing Prize
2006 Meroogal Women’s Art Award, NS
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2016 The Blake Prize, Casula Powerhouse
2015 Fisher’s Ghost Art Award, Campbelltown Arts Centre
2015 Imaginarium, Belconnen Art Centre
2014 Goulburn Art Award, Goulburn Regional Gallery
2014 Works on Paper, Stanley Street Gallery
2013 Momentum: Established and Emerging Women Sculptors, Belconnen Arts Centre
2012 Deakin University Small Sculpture Award
2012 Hidden: A Rookwood Sculpture Walk
PUBLICATIONS
Objects for an Unknown Future Museum Kim Mahood, Quarterly essay Garland Magazine issue 3, July 2016
Sally Simpson: Precipice Kim Mahood, Art Monthly October 2013
Standing on the Edge Kerry-Anne Cousins, Canberra Times 13 August 2013