Sally Carole Wright is an artist based on Queensland’s Gold Coast. Predominantly a mark-maker with a painterly abstract style, she is interested in exploring surface, contrast and hidden meanings. She has recently exhibited with The Walls Art Space, Metro Artspace, The Field at M.Arts Precinct, and Lorraine Pilgrim Gallery and had residencies with The Walls Art Space and The Field at M.Arts Precinct.

She incorporates painting, printmaking, drawing and collage, building up layers that are accumulated and transformed into spatial compositions. She has recently funnelled the documentation of this work into stop-motion animation, exploring notions of slow technology and the capture of ephemeral traces and actions.

After obtaining her Fine Art Degree of the School of Art, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Sally completed her Honours in Contemporary Art at UTAS, Launceston, receiving the Painting Prize. Her works can be found in collections including National Gallery Australia, Bundaberg Regional Art Gallery and Swinburne University. She is fascinated with the care and management of art, and her passion for making this accessible to others is evident through both her Graduate Diploma qualification in Museum Studies, from the University of QLD and her current role as a project officer with the Gallery at HOTA, Home of the Arts.

Education
2007 ~ Graduate Diploma of Museum Studies, Uni of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD
2004 ~ Bachelor of Contemporary Arts (Hons), Uni of Tasmania, Launceston, TAS

Selected group exhibitions
2020 ~ CO-VIDEO, The Field ART, M.Arts Precinct, Murwillumbah, NSW
2020 ~ THE FEEL, AIRspace, Metro Arts, Brisbane, QLD
2020 ~ RETREAT. The Walls Art Space, Miami, QLD
2020 ~ Frontlines: takayna to Adani, The Long Gallery, Salamanca Arts Centre, Hobart, TAS
2019 ~ Land, Childers Arts Space, Childers, QLD
2019~ The Summer Exhibition, Lorraine Pilgrim, Studio 87, Ashmore, QLD
Black Throated Finch exhibition, The Long Gallery, Salamanca, TAS
2018 ~ The Summer Exhibition, Lorraine Pilgrim, Studio 87, Ashmore, QLD
2017 ~ Kindred, Left Bank Gallery, Southport, QLD
2015 ~ Second Animalia International Print Exchange, online, now housed NGA, ACT
2011 ~ Printmaking, Brunswick Street Gallery, Fitzroy, VIC
2009 ~ Art Fair 2009, Woodgate, QLD
2008 ~ The Art of Making Sense, Cunningham Dax Collection, Parkville, VIC
Connections, s.p.a.c.e Gallery, Scotch Oakburn Arts Centre, Launceston, TAS
2007 ~ Ebb and Flow, Circle Gallery, West End, QLD
The Linden Postcard Exhibition, Linden Gallery, St Kilda, VIC
2006 ~ Connections, s.p.a.c.e Gallery, Scotch Oakburn Arts Centre, Launceston, TAS
2005 ~ Veneer: Poimena Art Award: Finalist exhibition, Poimena Gallery, Mowbray, TAS
The Discovery Art Show, Gasworks Arts Park, Albert Park, VIC
2004 ~ Spark: Post-Graduate Exhibition, Academy Gallery, Academy of the Arts, TAS
The Inveresk Exhibition, Powerhouse Gallery, Launceston, TAS

Solo exhibitions
2010 ~ The Gatekeeper, Brisbane Square Library, Brisbane, QLD
2009 ~ Threefold, am enduring history, Childers Regional Art Gallery, QLD
2007 ~ Wake, Urban Grind, Paddington, QLD
2005 ~ Intimate Disclosure, Scotch Oakburn Arts Centre, Launceston, TAS
2004 ~ Frontispiece of Fragmentation, Academy Gallery, Launceston, TAS

Awards/residencies
2020 ~ RETREAT. The Walls Art Space, Miami, QLD
2020 ~ Artist in residence, The Field, M.Space, Murwillumbah, QLD
2010 ~ Artist in residence, Bundaberg Regional Art Gallery, QLD
2009 ~ Artist in residence, Bundaberg Regional Art Gallery, QLD
2004 ~ Artist in Residence, Swinburne University, VIC +
Postgraduate Painting Department Prize, UTAS, Launceston, TAS
Scotch Oakburn College Tertiary Student Art Award, UTAS, Launceston, TAS

Collections
Bundaberg Regional Art Gallery, QLD; Cunningham Dax Collection, VIC; Swinburne University, VIC; Trinity College, Poatina and Wynyard High School, TAS; Private collections