Wood and fungus – Land and Identity — Sally Cleary
Sally Cleary likes to create mixed media landscapes that combine hand made organic forms with natural and man-made found objects transposed through mixed-media sculpture, art installations and photography. These range from large scale installations or more compact 3D collages . Her hybrid creations attempt to re-examine and reinterpret the genre of still life in the 21st century with particular emphasis on the mechanisms and mixed art categories reflecting changes in our natural environment. Symbolic objects are introduced as metaphors for the fragility and vulnerability of our natural ecological balance. Since 2016 she has also been developing a new range of porcelain ceramics, focusing on organic vessel forms that can be utilised for vases, lighting and tableware.
Sally always new she would pursue art as a career and began with a Diploma in Visual Arts followed by an MA and a PhD in Fine Art. She worked for 2 years at the National Gallery of Australia aand 15 years as a teacher in ceramics and sculpture at the RMIT University . She is currently living in Paris where she gives workshops in the porcelain arts and also shares a large studio on the outskirts of Paris with a group of artists.
Sally Cleary website
the Unswept Floor series by Sally Cleary
Sally Cleary porcelain ware
Slab construct porcelain vessel – Sally Cleary
Sally Cleary — works on paper
Sally Cleary — works on paper
‘Caught in the forest’ — Sally Cleary
Mimesis series
‘Of life and love’ – Sally Cleary
This work connects to a Roman Mosaic, The Unswept Floor , by Heracleitus, 2nd cent. AD. Mosaic variant of a 2nd-century BC Greek mosaic by Sosos of Pergamon.
Sally Cleary–slab built porcelain vases
Slab built porcelain vases by Sally Cleary
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‘Dry riverbed’ – Sally Cleary
Porcelain footed cone vessel with candle -Sally Cleary
‘Escarpment’ — Sally Cleary
Textural porcelain vases by Sally Cleary
Porcelain vases by Sally Cleary
Sally Cleary black on white porcelain vase
Sally Cleary
Sally Cleary white porcelain leaves
Two hand made cylinder slab vases – Sally Cleary
Incised porcelain vase – Sally Cleary
Porcelain sculpture – Sally Cleary
Cone shaped cup — Sally Cleary
‘Silent Night’ — Sally Cleary
This artwork introduces a bird, The Barking Owl, sitting on chair in the middle of a dry riverbed. This owl, once a visitor to my farm, could often be heard barking or screaming at night, and is now on the extinct species list of animals in the south-eastern forests of Victoria, due to habitat removal.
Sally Cleary with her Silent Night exhibition
‘Silver bower’ – Sally Cleary
Sally Cleary
‘Swirling around’ — Sally Cleary
‘Unfurling Mimesis’ – Sally-Cleary
‘Winter Landscape’ by Sally Cleary
Sally Cleary website
