Imagine fantastical worlds colliding with reality
My work is inspired by wild life, especially birds in their environment, and the nature of things in everyday life.
Repetitive pattern and shape, particularly dots dominate my work. I am obsessed with dots and see them everywhere, in everything. The work explores my connection with the world we inhabit, it is an expression of my reality but also my imagined world. Intricate and delicate forms intertwine in my work, just as my reality and my imagination blend.
Once I start a piece it consumes me, I become obsessed and transfixed by it. Through this process a part of me is embedded in my work.
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Represented by:
Fellia Melas Gallery, Woollahra NSW
19 KAREN Contemporary Artspace, Gold Coast Qld
Education
2014 Advanced Diploma Visual Arts, Nambour Tafe Qld
2014 Diploma Visual Arts, Tewantin Tafe Qld
2013 Certificate 4 Visual Arts, Tewantin Tafe Qld
Solo Show
2017 Colours of the spirit, 19Karen Contemporary Artspace. Gold Coast, Qld
Group Exhibitions
2017 Affordable Art, Small Paintings & Sculptures. November. Fellia Melas Gallery, Woollahra, NSW
2017 Spring Exhibition, Fellia Melas Gallery, Woollahra, NSW
2017 Affordable art , small paintings and sculptures. March Fellia Melas Galley, Woollahra, NSW
2016 Trailblazing Women of Herstory, Neospace gallery. Melbourne, Vic
2016 30th Annual Downlands art exhibition Toowoomba, Qld
2016 19 KAREN Directors Choice group exhibition #2. Gold Coast Qld
2015 19 KAREN Artists-General exhibition Sofitel Hotel, Gold Coast Qld
2014 emergencE, gallery one Nambour Qld
2014 Migration, gallery space Tafe Tewantin Qld
2014 Match Box, gallery space Tafe Tewantin Qld
2014 Deconstruction, gallery space Tafe Tewantin Qld
2013 Cert 4 final year exhibition, gallery space Tafe Tewantin Qld
2013 SCAP T3, Butter Factory Cooroy Qld
2013 Essence of the coast, Eumundi markets Qld
2013 Nambour public library, Nambour Qld
2013 Body art exhibition, Eumundi Qld
Awards
2018 Stanthorpe 25K Art prize, Stanthorpe. Finalist
2014 emergencE, gallery one. Sunshine Coast. Body of work. Winner
2014 emergencE, gallery one. Sunshine Coaast. People's choice award. Winner
Articles
https://localstoryspace.wordpress.com/2017/02/01/sally-paxton-writes-about-being-a-painter/
http://www.widewalls.ch/artist/sally-paxton/
http://www.trailblazingwomen.com.au/artworks/2016/9/27/sally-paxton-edna-walling