Sarah Fordyce
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A NEST OF TRYING
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Sarah Fordyce’s practice is centred around drawing and painting, where she explores interactions between mystery, place, and the everyday. She is interested in the way darkness disrupts the familiar, opening up the imagination and new ways of seeing. A full moon in the backyard, someone
preparing dinner, or the garden at night – Sarah’s work seeks the wildness that dwells beside or behind the intimate. Her oil paintings have rich colour set amongst animated shadows, with slippery brushstrokes straddling the space between attention to detail and looser movement. A layered process of photography, drawing, and gouache painting informs the work.
Since graduating from Curtin University with a Bachelor of Fine Art, Sarah has shown in numerous solo exhibitions around Australia, most recently as part of the Clayton Utz Partnership with 3:33 Art Projects. In 2023 Sarah was selected for Works On Paper 5 with Blue Shop Cottage in London. She had solo exhibitions with A.K Bellinger Gallery in 2021 and 2022, and has shown in group exhibitions with A.K Bellinger Gallery, Divisions Gallery, and
Rubicon ARI. Sarah has been a finalist in the Len Fox Painting Award and in 2019 was the recipient of the Small Projects Grant.
EDUCATION
2016 Bachelor of Fine Art, Curtin University, WA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024
A nest of trying, A.K Bellinger Gallery, Inverell, NSW
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2022
Clayton Utz and 3:33 Art Projects Partnership, Melbourne, VIC Of leaves and air, Mesopotamia Art Space, Coburg North, VIC Altars, A.K Bellinger Gallery, Inverell, NSW
2021
Blue, falling and rising, A.K Bellinger Gallery, Inverell, NSW
Fear not the harsh winter, Rubicon ARI, North Melbourne, VIC
2019
Evening spread against my eyes, Yarra Sculpture Gallery, Abbotsford, VIC
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023
Works On Paper 5, Blue Shop Galleries, London, UK Light and Space, Divisions Gallery, Pentridge, VIC
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2021
Christmas Show, A.K Bellinger Gallery, Inverell, NSW
Unleashed, The Pea Green Boat Studios, Brunswick, VIC 2020
Night Shadows, A.K Bellinger Gallery, Inverell, NSW
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2019
Friends and Family, Daine Singer, Fitzroy, VIC Glow, Neon Parlour, Thornbury, VIC
Len Fox Painting Award, Castlemaine Art Museum, Castlemaine, VIC
The Rubicon Experiment, Rubicon ARI, Melbourne, VIC
Outside In, Art, Not Apart, New Acton, ACT (Curated by Chloe Mandryk)
50 Squared Art Prize, Brunswick Street Gallery, Fitzroy, VIC
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2018
Behind the Curtain, Yarra Sculpture Gallery, Abbotsford, VIC (curated by Julian Cobb)
Aberration, The Burrow, Fitzroy, VIC
Out of Place, Aeso Studios, Fitzroy, VIC
2017
Between Black and White, Canberra ArtWorks, ACT
2015
MERGE, Belconnen Arts Centre, Belconnen, ACT
AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES
2022
Q Bank Gallery Residency, Queenstown, TAS
2019
Finalist, Len Fox Painting Award, Castlemaine, VIC
The Pickers Hut Artist Residency, Glaziers Bay, TAS
GRANTS
2019
Small Projects Grant 2018-2019, Yarra City Arts, Yarra City Council PUBLICATIONS
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2023
The Clayton Utz Art Partnership: 2017 – 2022, published in conjunction with Clayton Utz, 3:33 Art Projects, and Bandicoot Publishing
2019
Rebecca Blake, Outside In, Exhibition Essay, ANCA Art Bus, Art, Not Apart