Biography

“Lest We Forget: precious vestige II” INTERNATIONAL FOREST ART, Damstardt, GERMANY. September 2022

BIO SUMMARY

Kidall travels internationally creating her vast site-responsive interventions within challenging locations and buildings of interest, showing beyond the restraints of the gallery. Since gaining her Sculpture (Hons) Degree at Norwich School of Art, UK, later completing her Masters at Portsmouth University, UK, Kidall has worked consistently in developing her international arts practice. She has exhibited throughout the UK and Australia, also, USA, Senegal, France, Spain, Italy, Germany, Ukraine, S.Korea, New Zealand, India, Andorra, Netherlands.

In 2022 she created a number of new immersive site-responsive installations, including one for Dakar OFF 22, as part of the Dakar Biennale, Senegal, RespirArt 2022, Italy; and for the International Forest Art 2022, Darmstadt, Germany. The ragged exposed cliff tops at SCULPTURE BY THE SEA_Bondi, Australia, have offered a number of challenging sites to create 9 installations over the last 15 year. In 2022, John McDonald from the Sydney Morning Herald picked her installation ‘Bunker Down’ as one of the top 6 works. She has receiving various awards from Sculpture by the Sea including the recent Transfield Invited Australian Sculpture Award 2022.

She was selected for the BOAA_Biennale of Australian Artists in Victoria 2018, 2012 she representing Australia in Kiev, Ukraine at the inaugural International Contemporary Sculpture Festival in collaboration with Yorkshire Sculpture Park, UK, 2015 Kidall was the feature artist for “Step In Stone” an ambitious sculpture trail funded by the Arts Council England sited in abandoned stone quarries in Somerset, UK, 2017 she was invited to participate in the “Global Nomadic Art Project” Residency (GNAP) in the Loire Valley France and “The Story of Space” in Panjim, India, plus made an installation for the Museum of Goa, India, 2019 she was invited to create a work for Ground Speak LandArt on Schokland Island, Netherlands & created a work for the the Andorra LandArt Biennale 2019. In 2014, 2018 & 2022 she created works in the spectacular arid landscape in South Australia, for the Palmer Sculpture Biennale.

Kidall is one of the members of ZAC_Zest Artist Collective an international collaboration of 5 artists created during the COVID pandemic 2020. https://zestartistcollective.weebly.com/

Kidall has lectured at University of NSW (UNSW) and University of Technology (UTS), Sydney in Exhibition Design & Sustainability, for the Interior Architecture BA, Industrial Design BA and lectured at University College of the Creative Arts (UCCA) Surrey, UK with Industrial Design/Sustainable Futures BA. Previously, while maintain her art practice, she has many years of experience working in community arts and with architectural firms as an Interior Designer in design and project management.

EDUCATION

2007 PGC. Cert. HE Teaching & Learning Creative Art, UCCA Farnham, Surrey, UK
2006 MA, PORTSMOUTH UNIVERSITY, UK
1990 Diploma of Arts (Interior Design), TAFE: DESIGN CENTRE, ENMORE, AUSTRALIA
1983 BA (Hons) Degree Visual Arts (Sculpture), NORWICH SCHOOL OF ART, NORFOLK, UK

EXHIBITIONS

SITE SPECIFIC INSTALLATIONS_recent

2022 “Bunker Down: survival of the fittest” SCULPTURE BY THE SEA_Bondi, Sydney, AUSTRALIA, 2022, TRANSFIELD INVITED AUSTRALIAN ARTIST AWARD
2022 “An Intimate Dialogue” SNOWY VALLEYS SCULPTURE TRAIL_Shop Installation, Commissioned by Sculpture by the Sea, 2022 – 2023
2022 “Lest We Forget: precious vestige II” INTERNATIONAL FOREST ART, Damstadt, GERMANY.
2022 “Residenz Insecta” RESPIRART 2022, ITALY (as part of ZAC artist collective)
2022 “Barrier” IN BETWEEN, SPAIN (as part of ZAC artist collective)
2022 “Containment” OFF Darkart 2022, Dakar, SENEGAL (as part of ZAC-Zest Artists Collective) Dakar Biennale 22
2022 “Running Dry” PALMER BIENNIAL, South Australia 2022
2021 “Unearthed Seed Bank” Eden Unearthed 2021, Eden Gardens, Macquarie Park
2020 “Urban Containment II”
SCULPTURE BY THE SEA_Cottesloe Perth, W.AUSTRALIA
2019 “Urban Containment”
SCULPTURE BY THE SEA_BONDI Sydney, AUSTRALIA
2019 “Portable Containment: emergence” Commission for
2019 I-Park_Site-Responsive Art Residency & Biennale, Connecticut, USA
2019 “Lest we forget: precious vestige” Commission for
L’ANDART’19 International Biennial of Andorra, ANDORRA
2019 “Portable Containment: displacement” Commission for
GROUNDSPEAK-LANDART, Schokland Island, NETHERLANDS
2019 “Portable Containment: where are we going continues…?” Commission for EDGE/Greenway Festival, Innerwest Council, Sydney, AUS
Winner of the IWC Environmental Art Award 2019
2018 “Confluence” display of a performance video in collaboration with Cherie Sampson (USA), GEUMGANG NATURE ART BIENNALE 2018 _YATOO, City of Gongju, KOREA
2018 “Portable Containment: where are we going?” BIENNALE OF AUSTRALIAN ART, Ballarat, Victoria, AUSTRALIA
2018 “Portable Containment: urban sprawl” EDEN UNEARTHED 2018_ commission, Sydney, AUSTRALIA
2018 “Portable Containment: vestige” PALMER BIENNALE, S. AUSTRALIA
2017 “Portable Containment: there’s no place like home” MUSEUM OF GOA, INDIA
2017 “Facing Space” STORY OF SPACE, collaborative project with Karin van der Molen (Netherlands), Luis Gomes Park, Panjim, INDIA
2017 “Aqua: gold of the future” SCULPTURE BY THE SEA_Bondi, AUSTRALIA
2017 “Nomadic City: portable containment” EDEN UNEARTHED 2017_ commission, Sydney, AUSTRALIA
2017 “Nomadic Winds: a journey’s rest II” Commission for Old Lilyfield Road Bridge, INNER WEST COUNCIL, Sydney, AUSTRALIA
2017 “A Fortunate Life: when is enough enough?” HILL END FESTIVAL, commission by National Parks & Bathurst Regional Gallery
2017 “Portable Containment: cradle to cradle” SCULPTURE AT SCENIC WORLD, Katoomba, NSW, AUSTRALIA
2016 “Nomadic Winds: a journey’s rest” SCULPTURE BY THE SEA_Bondi, AUSTRALIA
2016 “One Journey Ends: another begins…?” SCULPTURE AT BARANGAROO _Barangaroo Reserve, Sydney, AUSTRALIA
2016 “In The Bag: when is enough enough?” Commission for Old Lilyfield Road Bridge, LEICHHARDT COUNCIL, Sydney, AUSTRALIA
2016 “In The Bag: is enough enough?” HARBOURVIEW SCULPTURE TRAIL Auckland, NEW ZEALAND
2015 A feature artist for STEP IN STONE _multi-strand quarry art trail funded by ARTS COUNCIL UK, Mendip Hills, Somerset, UK
• First Installation: “Lest We Forget: is enough enough?” Westdown Quarry, nr Chantry
• Second Installation: “Terra Firma: there’s no place like home” Fairy Cave Quarry, nr Oakhill
2015 “There’s No Place Like Home: is enough enough?” KATOOMBA CULTURAL CENTRE, NSW, AUSTRALIA.
2015 “In the Bag: is the grass greener?” SCULPTURE AT SCENIC WORLD, Katoomba, NSW, AUSTRALIA
2015 “At the Table: time for action” Commission for LEICHHARDT COUNICL, Sydney, AUSTRALIA
2014 “The Grass is Always Greener: lest we forget” AININ TUFIA ARTES SYMPOSIUM/RESIDENCY Tufia, Gran Canaria, SPAIN
2014 “Nomadic City: lest we forget II” UWS SCULPTURE AWARDS Campbelltown NSW, AUSTRALIA
2014 “Nomadic City: lest we forget I” PALMER SCULPTURE BIENNALE South AUSTRALIA
2013 “Nomadic City: lest we forget II” SCULPTURE BY THE SEA Bondi, Sydney NSW, AUSTRALIA
2013 “Nomadic City: lest we forget I” N.SYDNEY SITE SPECIFIC ART AWARDS, Sydney NSW, AUSTRALIA
2013 “Nomadic City: lest we forget I” ‘ON THE SHORE’ Sculpture Prize_Thirroul Festival NSW, AUSTRALIA
2013 “At the Table: are we sitting comfortably III” LEVEL 7 DAVID JONES Sculpture by the Sea, Sydney NSW, AUSTRALIA
2012 “The Grass is Always Greener” WOLLONGONG CITY GALLERY NSW, AUSTRALIA
2012 “In the Bag: time will tell” SCULPTURE BY THE SEA_Bondi Sydney NSW, AUSTRALIA
2012 “At the Table: are we sitting comfortably II” INTERNATIONAL SCULPTURE FESTIVAL in collaboration with UK’s YORKSHIRE SCULPTURE PARK, Kiev, UKRAINE
2012 “In the Bag: are we sitting comfortably? II” UWS SCULPTURE AWARDS Campbelltown, NSW, AUSTRALIA
2012 “In the Bag: time will tell” (first prize) ‘ON THE SHORE’_Thirroul Festival, NSW, AUSTRALIA
2011 “In the Bag: are we sitting comfortably?” YERING STATION SCULPTURE AWARDS Victoria, AUSTRALIA
2011 “Staying Afloat: is enough enough? (first prize & peoples choice) ‘ON THE SHORE’_Thirroul Festival, NSW, AUSTRALIA
2010 “At the Table: are we sitting comfortably” SCULPTURE BY THE SEA Bondi, Sydney, NSW, AUSTRALIA
2010 “Affluenza: are you sitting comfortably” WEEREEWA Sculpture Prize Lake George, NSW, AUSTRALIA
2009 “Apple Web” 5 LANDS EPHEMERAL ART WALK Avoca Beach, NSW, AUSTRALIA
2008 “Plug-In” SCULPTURE BY THE SEA Bondi, Sydney, NSW, AUSTRALIA
2007 “Cradle to Cradle III”(Chandelier) _Art Vaults 2007 _BARGATE MONUMENT GALLERY Southampton, UK
2007 “The Experiment II” STROUD HOUSE GALLERY Stroud, Gloucestershire UK
2006 “Stepping Lightly” _’Landmarks III ‘ LOWOOD GALLERY Armathwaite, Cumbria UK
2006 “The Experiment” & “Salt Shirt & Chair” THE SPACE Gallery Portsmouth University UK

RESIDENCIES

2021 STA Funded Residency_Shaw Wines_shearing shed, Murrumbateman
2021 BIGCI, Bilpin, NSW. Awarded Residency_Director’s Choice Environmental Prize
2019 I-Park_Site-Responsive Art Residency & Biennale, Connecticut, USA
2017 THE STORY OF SPACE Artist’s Residency Panjim, INDIA
2017 GNAP_FRANCE (Global Nomadic Art Project) Loire Valley, FRANCE
2017 HILL END Artist’s Residency NSW, AUSTRALIA
2014 “TUFI’ARTS” AiNIN SYMPOSIUM/RESIDENCY Tufia, Gran Canaria, SPAIN
2014 “Bowhill Beckons” Collaborative Residency in a rural SOUTH AUSTRALIA
2012 INTERNATIONAL SCULPTURE FESTIVAL, Kiev Sculpture Project & Yorkshire Sculpture Park Kiev, UKRAINE
2007 “Cradle to Cradle III”(Chandelier) _ART VAULTS 2007, BARGATE MONUMENT GALLERY, Southampton, UK

AWARDS_recent

2021 TRANSFIELD INVITED AUSTRALIAN ARTIST AWARD_Sculpture by the Sea, Sydney, AUSTRALIA
2021 DIRECTOR’S ARTIST RESIDENCY AWARD_BIG CI, Bilpin, AUSTRALIA
2019 ANDREA STRETTON MEMORIAL INVITATION AWARD_to exhibit at SXS Cottesloe 2020
2019 IWC ENVIRONMENTAL ART AWARD Innerwest Council/Edge Festival, Lilyfield.
2017 & 2019 AUSTRALIA COUNCIL_ARTIST SUBSIDY Sculpture by the Sea
2016 CATALYST FUNDING SUBSIDY Sculpture by the Sea
2016 NSW Gallery_TASKFORCE SUBSIDY, Sculpture by the Sea
2013 ENVIRONMENTAL SCULPTURE AWARD, Sydney Water, Sculpture by the Sea_Bondi
FIRST PRIZE 2011, 2012, 2013 ‘ON THE SHORE’ Sculpture Prize, Thirroul Festival
2010 ENVIRONMENTAL SCULPTURE AWARD ‘ON THE SHORE’ Sculpture Prize, Thirroul Festival

GALLERY SOLO_OLD

2011 Translations…….ant works II BRUNSWICK ART SPACE Melbourne
2010 Translations…….ant works SHEAHAM GALLERY Clifton, NSW
2007 Cradle to Cradle BRIGHTON FRINGE FESTIVAL_Media Centre Brighton, Sussex

SHORTLISTING:

2017 & 2018_First selection finalist_ARTE LAGUNA PRIZE_Land Art section, VENICE, ITALY
2017_finalist _CHENG LONG WETLAND ENVIRONMENTAL PROJECT, TAIWAN
2016_finalist_INTRA REGIONALE 2016, HANNOVER, GERMANY
2014 _semi-finalist_Artist In Residency HEADLANDS CENTRE FOR THE ARTS, CALIFORNIA USA


SELECTIVE OTHER SHOWS:

2018 YATOO Geumgang Nature Art Biennale 2018 Video S.KOREA
2017 What’s In The Box? BOAA_traveling show, Victoria, AUSTRALIA
2016 STEP IN STONE _Salisbury Art Centre, UK.
2016 “WATER” GEUMGANG NATURE ART BIENNALE _Chungnam, Republic of Korea, 2016
2015 “On Photocopy/Displacement” 44AD GALLERY, Bath, Somerset, UK
2015 “Step in Stone inside” BLACK SWAN GALLERY Frome, Somerset, UK
2014 “Sculpture Inside” SCULPTURE BY THE SEA_Cottesloe, West Australia
2012 “Drawn Apart” PAPER PLANE GALLERY Rozelle NSW
2011 BLAKE PRIZE_Directors Cut, Sydney
2011 “On the Move” _Sculpture by the Sea, ORANGE REGIONAL GALLERY NSW Australia
2010 ARTSITE Camperdown Sydney
2006 “ReNew06: A Collaboration” 68 HOPE STREET GALLERY Liverpool School of Art/Design UK
2006 “Under the Influence” & “Head Turner” GALLERY IOTA Ramsgate, Kent UK
2006 “Renewal” WEST END CENTRE Aldershot, Surrey UK
2005 FARNHAM MALTINGS GALLERY Surrey UK
1991 AIR SPACE Redfern, Sydney
1986 BATTERSEA ARTS CENTRE London
1985 WOODLAND GALLERY Blackheath, London
1983 BRIXTON ART GALLERY London

TALKS & PRESENTATIONS_recent

2019 GALLERY NSW, Sydney AUSTRALIA _Panel Speaker for: Sydney Sculpture Conference: The Significance of Place
2017 MCA Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney AUSTRALIA_Presentations for: Art & the Environment: Creative Response to Place
2015 ISC Sculpture Conference, Arizona, proposal accepted
2015 Presentation STEP IN STONE Somerset UK
2015 Visual Arts Teachers Conference Scenic World Katoomba, AUSTRALIA
2014 AININ Symposium & Conference TUFI’ ARTES Grand Canaria, SPAIN
2014 Presentation TREE HOUSE Mentoring Group, Bristol UK
2012 INTERNATION SCULPTURE CONFERENCE Kiev, UKRAINE
2011 WOLLONGONG CITY GALLERY Presentation_Art & the Environment Conference

ARTIST STATEMENT

Through site-responsive interventions, both virtual and physical, I seek to challenge the predictability of expectations and ‘cultural homogeneity’ by creating metaphorical spaces and environments that explore the anxieties and insecurities of the Anthropocene Era. My research/practice aims to create experiential encounters with place through deep listening and reflection through themes of ‘earth-cry’. I aim to nurture visceral relationships with ‘country’ through all senses to encourage an empathic understanding of our entangled and inseparable connections within our natural environments highlighting our responsibilities as custodians and not destroyers; inspired by Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures and their profound spiritual connections to ‘country’.

WEBSITE 2:  www.axisweb.org/artist/sallykidall

PUBLICATIONS

2022 IMAGO INSECTA – A Relational Immersion Collaborative essay for 					      WEAD-Women Eco Artists Dialog, with ZAC-Zest Artist Collective

20/10/22 Illawarra Mercury_Article about my project for Sculpture by the Sea 
  
21/10/22 Sydney Morning Herald_Review project for Sculpture by the Sea_Bondi

1/11/22 The Illawarra Flame_Bunker Down at Bondi_Review for project SXS 

2017 GNAP_ Europe Catalogue  http://fr.calameo.com/read/0019600635c06980d60cb

2016 YATOO Geumgang Nature Art Biennale 2016 Catalogue  S.KOREA

2016 BOOK: Sculpture by the Sea the First Twenty Year 1997-2016, p 72 & 83, 2016.

2016 Don Abbott, ‘Sculpture Out West The 2016 Harbourview Sculpture Trail’ Art New Zealand, pp 79-81, Winter 2016

2016 Terry Gifford, ‘Step in Stone Exhibition, Fairy Cave Quarry, Somerset, October 2015’ Alpine Journal, 2016

2014 Dr. Marilyn Walters, ‘The Sliding Aesthetic’ UWS Sculpture Award and Exhibition Catalogue 2014, pp 3-5, 2014 
http://virtualtours.uws.edu.au/site/assets/media/UWS%20Sculpture%20Award/UWS-Sculpture-Award-2014/ARTXXXX-Sculpture-Awards-Catalogue_web3.pdf

2012 Kiev Sculpture Project ‘Sally Kidall’ First International Sculpture Festival Catalogue, pp 60-65, 2012. 
https://issuu.com/kadygrob_taylor/docs/block_part_full/63

2012 Monica McMahon, ‘The Fifth University of Western Sydney Sculpture Award 2012,’ UWS Sculpture Award and Exhibition Catalogue 2012, pp 3-5, 2012 
http://virtualtours.uws.edu.au/site/assets/media/UWS%20Sculpture%20Award/UWS-Sculpture-Award-2012/UWS-Sculpture-Award-2012-Catalogue.pdf

2011 BOOK: Sculpture by the Sea the First Fifteen Year 1997-2011, p 125, 2011.

Book: Sculpture by the Sea 1997-2016  http://www.sculpturebythesea.com/products/15th-anniversary-book.aspx

Book: Sculpture by the Sea 1997-2011  http://www.sculpturebythesea.com/products/15th-anniversary-book.aspx

Catalogue: Kyiv Sculpture Project 2012 http://www.ksp.org.ua/eng/press   https://issuu.com/kadygrob_taylor/docs/block_part_full/63

Catalogue UWS Sculpture Awards 2012: http://virtualtours.uws.edu.au/site/assets/media/UWS%20Sculpture%20Award/UWS-Sculpture-Award-2012/UWS-Sculpture-Award-2012-Catalogue.pdf

Catalogue UWS Sculpture Awards 2014:  http://virtualtours.uws.edu.au/site/assets/media/UWS%20Sculpture%20Award/UWS-Sculpture-Award-2014/ARTXXXX-Sculpture-Awards-Catalogue_web3.pdf

Yorkshire Sculpture Park http://www.ksp.org.ua/eng/press http://www.publicartonline.org.uk/whatsnew/projects/article.php/Kyiv+Sculpture+Project%3A+Yorkshire+Sculpture+Park

www.sculptureproject.org.ua/../ksp_booklet.http://www.ksp.org.ua/eng/ksp2012/

http://www.m.wnu-ukraine.com/multimedia/photos/?id=738

Step in Stone Project, UK 2015: stepinstonesomerset.wordpress.com

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