Sally Blake

Lithosphere (detail), 2016. Patinated copper wire.

sally blake

Sally Blake is a Canberra-based visual artist working across textiles, drawing and sculpture. Through her practice she visualises the complex patterning and connections between the human and natural worlds. Sally is particularly interested in cycles of death, renewal and regeneration as well as finding the points where transformations may take place. Her previous careers as a paediatric nurse and midwife deepened her understanding of birth and death cycles.

In Sally’s contemporary drawings and textiles, cyclic patterning and the interconnected whole are explored, as well as the consequences of their undoing. She feels deeply about disconnections in human understanding of the natural world which result in environmental crises. And in turn Sally contemplates the effect of the climate crisis upon humans, examining art’s purposeful role in bringing attention to, and examining significant environmental and social issues. In her recent solo exhibition, The Ancient Gaze at Belcoarts the ancient wisdom embodied in European Palaeolithic figurines was brought into conversation with contemporary environmental concerns.