Sally Craven

Statement

Personally, I’ve always been particularly drawn to translucent materials and aesthetics—glass, mesh, ice, tracing paper, clouds, mist. These materials have always felt related to feelings of fluidity, vagueness, obfuscation, and gentleness, feelings I ascribe to different and malleable ways of thinking about gender, desire, and the body.

GlogauAIR Project

Ethereal, tender and wonder-filled combinations of varied materials become inquiries into political narrative. Using methods that include hot glass techniques, glass kiln-casting, pouring and assemblage—leakages reveal themselves as material investigations. The formlessness that refuses to take shape, to behave as an object.

A sculptural installation will be developed on-site during the residency at GlogauAIR, an outcome which will be process-driven, developing with research and space in mind. I will explore new mediums, including painting.

Installation and Sculpture

CV Summary

Education

• 2021 Bachelor of Contemporary Art, University of South Australia, Australia
• 2009 Master of Landscape Architecture, University of Adelaide, Australia
• 2007 Bachelor of Design Studies, University of Adelaide, Australia

Awards

• 2021 Constance Gordon-Johnson Sculpture Prize, UniSA Creative
• 2021 Vacation Research Scholarship, UniSA Creative, supervised by artist Michael Kutschbach
• 2009 Hassell Travelling Scholarship, Robin Edmond Award (National Australian Prize)
• 2009 Landscape Architecture Australia Prize
• 2009 Phillips Pilkington Landscape Architecture Prize

Selected Solo Exhibitions

• 2022 I think about all kinds of borders, and how surely they all break down with time, Seventh Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
• 2022 desiring-production, Cement Fondu, Sydney, Australia

Selected Group Exhibitions

• 2023 Reading into Things, curated by Samuel Kirby, Naomi Segal and Alexander Tanazefti, Pari Ari, Sydney, Australia
• 2021 Live Dreams: Portal, Performance Space, Liveworks Festival 2021, curated by Emma Webb (Vitalstatistix) online and Carriageworks, Sydney, Australia
• 2021 Riverbeds, collaboration with Ena Grozdanic, FELTspace ARI, Adelaide, Australia
• 2021 Politics of Memory, SASA Gallery, Adelaide, Australia
• 2021 Testing Nights: May, Testing Grounds, Melbourne, Australia
• 2020 Artists Making Futures: Bushfire Appeal, SA Arts for a Cause, Holy Rollers Gallery, Adelaide, Aust.

Residencies and Mentorships

• 2023 Residency at GlogauAIR, Berlín, Germany
• 2021 Testing Grounds Creative Development Program, Residency and Mentorship with Erin Milne, Producer and Curator of Bureau of Works, Testing Grounds, Melbourne, Australia

Publications

• 2023 Reading into Things, Memo Review, Melbourne, March Memo Review
• 2022 New Glass Review 42, Corning Museum of Glass, New York, September
• 2022 Fuse Glass Prize catalogue essay, Eva Czernis-Ryl, The Jam Factory, Adelaide, May
• 2022 Catalogue essay, Josie Dillon, Cement Fondu, Sydney, February
• Google Drive

Recent Career History

• 2020 – 2022 Co-director at FELTspace artist-run gallery, Adelaide, Australia
• 2017 – 2022 Sessional Lecturer in Master of Landscape Architecture courses, School of Architecture and Built Environment, University of Adelaide, Australia

Gallery