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site-responsive conceptual art…

UPCOMING PROJECTS

• BUNDANON ARTIST IN RESIDENCE, NSW, AUSTRALIA, April 2026

• CITY ROOMS_commission, Jakobstadt, Finland August 2026

• “STEPPING Beyond” _Sally Kidall SOLO Show _MAXI.KUNST Gallery Nuremberg, GERMANY September 2026

• RADICAL FIELDS RESIDENCY, Djaara, Victoria, AUSTRALIA 2027

RECENT

• 2026 SCULPTURE BY THE SEA, Cottesloe, WA, AUSTRALIA

• 2025 GLOBAL NOMADIC ART PROJECT 2025 EXHIBITION, Nature Art Museum Ko, SOUTH KOREA

• 2025 GNAP Group Show, MUSEUM SCHLOß FECHENBACH, Dieburg, GERMANY

• 2025 GNAP_Germany (Global Nomadic Art Project) Residency, Darmstadt, GERMANY

• 2025 EPHEMERA: TRACE-LESS_ finalist exhibition, Townsville, Queensland, AUSTRALIA Project Website

• DEMOGRAPHIC FOREST READER, Group Show, SCHADER FOUNDATION OF SOCIAL SCIENCE Darmstadt, GERMANY June 2025

• 2025 SUNRISE FILM FESTIVAL 4th BIFA, “Buffing the Walking Men”_Award-winning entry, Lowestoft, UK SUNRISE FILM FESTIVAL WEBPAGE

• 2024 ARTE LAGUNA PRIZE VENICE_FINALIST EXHIBITION (18th edition)_Environmental/Land Art Section, ARSENAL NORTH, Venice, ITALY, ARTELAGUNA_SALLY KIDALL

“Secret Network” SECRET ROOMS PROJECT_Nykarlaby, Finland
Network Entrance, Kuddnäs Museum cellar
Kuddnäs Museum cellar
Surveillance View
Surveillance View
Secret Network Surveillance Hub_Head Office, Nykarleby Townhall, FINLAND https://ourair.art/secret-rooms/
“Secret Networks” SECRET ROOMS PROJECT_Nykarlaby, Finaland 2024. Sally Kidall’s subterranean intervention weaves together fictional narratives. She recounts tales of forgotten underground passageways and concealed rooms scattered across Nykarleby. Visitors can only view this hidden network through a single entry point in the cellar of Kuddnäs Museum, while the central surveillance hub, located in the town hall, is viewable via a video feed.

PROJECT WEBLINK

BUNKER DOWN: Subterranean Project Series

“Bunker Down: Survival of the fittest II” NZ SCULPTURE ONSHORE 2023, Auckland NZ

PROJECT WEBLINK_BUNKER DOWN SITE NZ SCULPTURE ONSHORE 2023

PROJECT WEBLINK_BUNKER DOWN SITE SCULPTURE BY THE SEA_BONDI 2022

“Unearthed Seed Bank” EDEN UNEARTHED 2021, Eden Gardens, AUSTRALIA UNEARTHED SEED BANK Website Link
“Containment” an immersive installation by Sally Kidall as part of a collaborative exhibition by ZAC-Zest Artists Collective as part of Dak’ART OFF 2022, Dakar Biennale, SENEGAL.
“An Intimate Dialogue” 2022-23, SNOWY VALLEYS SCULPTURE TRAIL_Shop Commission by SCULPTURE BY THE SEA, Tumbarumba, NSW AUSTRALIA
“Stone Vestige” FRUGA ART TRAIL, Island of Rab, CROATIA 2024
“Lest We Forget: precious vestige II” INTERNATIONAL FOREST ART, Darmstadt, GERMANY. September 2022
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Underland installation
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GNAP-GLOBAL NOMADIC ART PROJECT_GERMANY 2025
“Foot Note” & “Can’t See the Wood for the Trees”, summer & winter 2023. Jacobstadt, FINLAND
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“Bunker Down: survival of the fittest IV” SCULPTURE BY THE SEA_COTTESLOE 2026
“ Running Dry” PALMER BIENNALE 2022, S.AUSTRALIA
“Barrier” IN BETWEEN_Sally Kidall, part of group exhibition by ZAC_Zest Artist Collective, SPAIN 2022
“Unearthed Seed Bank” EDEN Gardens, Macquarie Park, NSW. Seed Bank website link PROJECT WEBSITE
“‘Underland” Project created during BigCi Residency 2021, Bilpin NSW, Australia

ABOUT SALLY

Sally Kidall is a site-responsive conceptual artist with a background in sculpture. Through her internationally recognised practice, she challenges the predictability of expectations and cultural homogeneity by constructing narrative-driven, metaphorical spaces and environments that respond to contemporary anxieties and insecurities. 

She specialises in creating immersive, site-responsive environments that transcend the confines of traditional galleries, often as temporary or fictional constructions set in natural, built, or imagined subterranean landscapes. Her process combines conceptual research with illusory settings and sensory stimuli, integrating video projection, sound manipulations and scent, supported by website links and drawings. This approach offers performative platforms for collaboration with interdisciplinary practitioners and encourages active audience participation. 

All aspects of her work are informed by direct engagement with place and her enduring fascination with subterranean environments, both literal and fictional. A central thread currently evolving through her practice explores subterranean landscapes as metaphors for liminality, thresholds, suspension, ambiguity, incubation and transformation. Read more…

“Spinning Gold” Shaw Wines’ sheep Sheering shed, Murrumbateman NSW, STA Residency
“Portable Containment: emergence” SITE-RESPONSIVE BIENNALE 2019, I-Park Residency, Connecticut, USA
“Portable Containment: emergence” SITE-RESPONSIVE BIENNALE 2019, I-Park Residency, Connecticut, USA

“Portable Containment: displacement” GroundSpeak 2019, Museum Schokland Island, NETHERLANDS
“Portable Containment: where are we going continues…?”  INNERWEST COUNCIL 2019, Leichhardt, AUSTRALIA

“Portable Containment: lest we forget” ANDORRA LAND’ART BIENNALE 2019
“Urban Containment” SCULPTURE BY THE SEA_Bondi 2019
“Urban Containment II” SCULPTURE BY THE SEA-Cottesloe 2020, W.AUSTRALIA

“Portable Containment: where are we going?” BOAA-BIENNALE OF AUSTRALIAN ARTISTS 2018, Ballarat, Victoria AUSTRALIA

“Portable Containment: vestige” PALMER BIENNALE 2018, S.AUSTRALIA
GOA MUSEUM 2018, INDIA
Performance, INDIA
Collaboration with Karin van der Molen STORY OF SPACE 2017, Panjim, INDIA
Collaborative performance with Karin van der Molen 2017, Panjim Market, INDIA
SCENIC WORLD SCULPTURE AWARD 2017, AUSTRALIA
SCULPTURE BY THE SEA_BONDI 2016
SCULPTURE BY THE SEA-Bondi 2016, AUSTRALIA

Selection of past projects…

BUNKER DOWN WEBSITE LINK