Sally Ward

I live and work in Kent. I graduated from Norwich School of Art and then completed an Advanced Sculpture Course at St Martins College of Art in London.  After leaving St Martins I shared a studio with Katherine Gili and worked part time as her assistant. I spent many years working with Community Art projects in Lewisham and running workshops in the Tate Galleries, the British Museum and Museum of London. Whilst working in Tate Modern my design was used to create an Under 5s Children’s Area.

I have exhibited widely and recent exhibitions include The Royal West of England 170 Open Exhibition 2023 in Bristol and The Royal Cambrian Academy Open Exhibition 2022/3 in Conwy. I exhibit regularly with the FPS (The Free Painters and Sculptors) and was accepted as an ArtCan artist in May 24. I have recently shown six sculptures in the Flux Exhibition in London in July 24 and shown sculpture in The Himalayan Garden and Sculpture Park in Ripon, North Yorkshire. I exhibited a sculpture and watercolour with ArtCan in October in The Department Store in Brixton.

With my sculptural practice I look to nature for inspiration, trees, stones or the sea. Inspiration might come from a walk along the beach where the sea has breached  and broken the groynes and marched up the beach to erode the cliffs, leaving ammonites exposed and parts of buildings fallen to the shore. I use mixed media with a composite mix of pulped recycled paper and sand to create forms that can be combined to create larger pieces. These can be shaped when wet or cut, filed or waxed when dry.

It is a long process and I like to balance this with experimental watercolour. In sculpture I look to the physical world but in painting I am interested in the macro concepts of space or the micro molecular world.

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