Sally Kidall<strong>Art</strong>ist StatementThrough site-specific environmental installation <strong>and</strong>photography I seek to challenge the predictability ofexpectation <strong>and</strong> `cultural homogeneity’. My art practiceis inspired by the complexities, equilibrium <strong>and</strong> fragilityof the natural environment <strong>and</strong> by the ways in which ourman made system works within, or in opposition to, thesenatural systems. The focus of my practice is the concept oftransition, including notions of unpredictability, vulnerability,deterioration <strong>and</strong> ephemerality. My work is informed byissues relating to human ecology, consumption <strong>and</strong>materialism.“The more we have the less we own.”Meister Eckhart<strong>Art</strong>ist BiographyInternational environmental artist Sally Kidall was born inthe UK, she has been practicing for over 25 years <strong>and</strong> atpresent works in Australia. She exhibits throughout theUK <strong>and</strong> Australia. Her background is in sculpture <strong>and</strong> inrecent years has been focusing her practice on creatingsite-specific environmental installation. On completing herMA in 2006 at Portsmouth <strong>University</strong>, UK she returned toAustralia.In June <strong>2012</strong> Sally will be representing Australia at theInternational Festival of Contemporary <strong>Sculpture</strong>: Kyiv<strong>Sculpture</strong> Project, Ukraine.Recent Solo <strong>Exhibition</strong>s2011 Antworks: Translations, Brunswick<strong>Art</strong>s, Brunswick, Victoria2010 Antworks: Translations, SheahanGalleries, Clifton, NSW2007 Cradle to Cradle, Brighton MediaCentre, Brighton Festival, UKSelected Recent Group <strong>Exhibition</strong>s2011 Yering Station <strong>Sculpture</strong> <strong>Award</strong>s, Victoria2011 On the Move (<strong>Sculpture</strong> by the Sea)Orange Regional <strong>Gallery</strong>, NSW2008 & 2010 <strong>Sculpture</strong> by the Sea, Bondi, NSW2010 Weereewa Festival Lake George,Bungendore, NSW2009 5 L<strong>and</strong>s Ephemeral <strong>Art</strong> Walk, Avoca Beach, NSW2007 <strong>Art</strong> Vaults, Bargate Monument<strong>Gallery</strong>, Southampton, UK2007 The Experiment, Stroud House <strong>Gallery</strong>, Stroud, UK2006 L<strong>and</strong>marks III, Lowood <strong>Gallery</strong>, Cumbria UK28
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