• 'I'm interested in reclaiming and reinterpreting the way male artists represented women. Rather than women as objects, I want them to be subjects.' - Sally Anderson

     
  • Sally Anderson, MA Vessel SL, EV Linen Press Window, 2024 (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Sally Anderson, Marry You Horizon, Sea Room, Sirius, Unfolding Self, 2024 (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Sally Anderson, Reclining middle mother, PP's nude in a garden, birth plants, NO vessel, 2025 (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Sally Anderson, Green with orange jug, 2025 (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Sally Anderson, MA Vessel SL, EV Linen Press Window, 2024
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  • Objective.

    This bold new exhibition challenges traditional concepts of still life, showcasing a diverse range of artists who push the boundaries of the genre. With a focus on contemporary expression, the exhibition offers an exciting departure from the conventional, using painting, video, sculpture​ and installation to explore everyday objects and scenes in unexpected ways.

     

    The featured artists each bring a unique vision to the genre. Familiar objects are transformed through abstraction and everyday forms are elevated into striking visual experiences. Installations examine the relationship between nature and the artificial, and personal narratives add a sense of intimacy and familiarity to the inanimate objects.

    Through humour, whimsy​ and bold experimentation, the artists re-energise the still life genre, inviting audiences to engage with the ordinary in unexpected and imaginative ways. This playful approach challenges the boundaries of traditional still life and encourages a vibrant dialogue between art and perception. The result is still life by definition - but not as you know it.

  • Bio.

    Bio.

    'Deep within, her paintings carry autobiographical elements heavy with memory and meaning...'

    Sally Anderson’s work draws heavily on personal domestic, maternal, and relational experiences, as well as second-hand encounters with landscapes, to explore how meaning and memory are held, stored, and carried. She is particularly interested in the concept of ‘the souvenir’ and the ways we authenticate experiences and navigate notions of reality and truth. 

     

    Anderson recontextualizes and arranges personal and intimate experiences with art historical references to address how motherhood, domesticity, and creative practice are, for her, reciprocal and ultimately entangled. Her paintings deliberately oscillate between abstraction and representation, using still-life and landscape motifs as symbols of containment and care. Stella Rosa McDonald writes that Sally’s paintings are 'like wombs or libraries—where gestation and digestion are tacitly implied.'

     

    Born in Lismore, Sally Anderson began her undergraduate studies in Visual Art at Southern Cross University before transferring to the College of Fine Art in Sydney. A past finalist in the Sulman Prize at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, the Portia Geach Memorial Award, the Sunshine Coast Art Prize and the Paddington Art Prize, Anderson was invited to participate in the Association of Icelandic Visual Artists residency in Reykjavik, Iceland, in 2014. In 2017 Sally Anderson won the prestigious Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship administered by the Art Gallery of NSW and completed a residency at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris.

     

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