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LIGHT IS THE MESSENGER
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SARAH FORDYCE
Sarah Fordyce’s practice explores the meeting between internal and external landscapes, where she layers interactions between mystery, place, and the everyday. She is interested in the ways darkness and light disrupt the familiar, opening up psychological spaces in the body, and fostering deeper looking. A full moon in the backyard, the space between branches, or a window in the morning – Sarah’s work seeks the wildness that dwells beside or behind the intimate. Her oil paintings have rich colour, thin layers of paint, and active lines informed by a regular drawing practice.
Since graduating from Curtin University with a Bachelor of Fine Art, Sarah has shown in numerous solo exhibitions around Australia, including 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, 2022, and 2024, 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.
SARAH FORDYCE B.
1990, Hobart/Nipaluna, Australia
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EDUCATION
2016 Bachelor of Fine Art, Curtin University, WA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024
A nest of trying, A.K Bellinger Gallery, Inverell, NSW
2022
Clayton Utz and 3:33 Art Projects Partnership, Melbourne, VIC
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 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 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 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
2025
MASSIA Artist Residency, Massiaru, Pärnu County, Estonia
2022
Q Bank Gallery Residency, Queenstown, TAS, Australia
2019
Finalist, Len Fox Painting Award, Castlemaine, VIC, Australia The Pickers Hut Artist Residency, Glaziers Bay, TAS, Australia
GRANTS
2019
Small Projects Grant 2018-2019, Yarra City Arts, Yarra City Council PUBLICATIONS
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