Sally HART
BIO
Born Ayr, Queensland 1960. Sally currently lives and works as an artist in the Scenic Rim district.
Sally was an active participant in the 1980-1994 artist-run scene in Brisbane. Sally directly participate in artist-runs including teaching ceramics and visual art at The Activities Centre at the University of Queensland, as a member of the Artworker’s Union (Qld), the Queensland Artworkers Alliance, as a collective member of That Contemporary Art Space land the Little Alternatives group and as a featured artist in the 1986 group exhibition curated by Robert Linguard, Young Contemporaries at The Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane.
Sally collaborated on the production on many ephemera items during this period including posters, invites, flyers and newsletters. For bands, theatres, events, forums, exhibitions and cinemas.
Sally Hart lives and works in Boonah Qld . Her work has taken her in many directions, from painting to printing; to weaving large scale outdoor sculptural work. She is interested in the interactive participatory reflective arts practice and is working on a series of large scale weavings. In 2014 Sally participated in the Arts in the Olives and exhibited her work at the Boonah Regional Art Gallery.
Live at the Centre, Scenic Rim, 2014
She’d thrown it out there like a line from a fishing reel
a piece of bait in the large hook waiting for that moment
A jerk a tug the surprised feeling when she would know it had been taken and
she could reel it in
Handle it, take it off the hook
Then the questions came
What lay at the end of the line?
What would she do with it now?
Throw it back, kill it, scale it, save the hook for another time
she was galloping furiously to the finish line
to get there as fast as she could
It had started and she wanted it to be over
Her time gone, never to return
The opportunity to explain herself lost forever
Like she had cut that line and it had floated away on the outgoing tide…
- Hart 1/11/13
Art Practice Keywords:
Installation, painting, drawing, collage, assemblage
Artist Role Keywords:
Visual Artist
Collaboration/ Collaborator names Keywords:
1980s: Artworker’s Union (Qld), Qld Artworker’s Alliance, John Mills National, That Contemporary Art Space. Institute of Modern Art, The Billboard Project, Le Scoops, Aromas Cafe
Current:
Collections
Various Private Collections
CV
1979-81
Studied Visual Arts, Darling Downs Institute of Advanced Education, Toowoomba
1984
Women and Labour Conference, Schonell Foyer, University of Queensland
1985
That Opening Exhibition, That Contemporary Art Space
Jenny Chirnside, Julia Selwood, Sally Hart, That Contemporary Art Space
This is That, Gladstone Regional Gallery and Museum, Gladstone
1986
Young Contemporaries, IMA, Brisbane
State of the Art: Art of the State, Forgan Smith, University of Queensland
Sally Hart, Gavan Fenelon, Fiona Winning, That Contemporary Art Space
That First Birthday Exhibition, That Contemporary Art Space
