Sally smart biography

Sally Smart () is one of Australia's significant contemporary artists with a practice that engages identity politics: ideas relating to the body; the home and history.

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Sally Smart is an Australian contemporary artist known for her large-scale assemblage installations that incorporate a range of media, including felt cut-outs, painted canvas, drawings, screen-printing, printed fabric and photography, performance.

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Sally Smart is one of Australia's most venerated contemporary artists with a practice that engages identity politics: ideas relating to the body; the home and.

SALLY SMART completed a Master of Fine Arts at the Victorian College of the Arts in and is currently a Vice-Chancellor's Professorial Fellow at.

Smart is recognised internationally for producing stunning, large-scale cut-out assemblage installations made from felt, canvas, silk- screened and everyday fabrics that she constructs with pins. Smart is a process-oriented artist, often presenting narratives that characteristically subvert gender hierarchies through deconstruction and reconstruction of historical events and political associations with the traditional activities of women.

Her work identifies with the art practices of Cubism, Dada, and Surrealism, and reflects a long engagement with avant-garde modernist women artists such as Sonia Delaunay, Hannah Hoch, Lyubov Popova, and Sophie Taeuber, all exponents of work with performance, collage and textiles and a lineage of practice she shares. 

 

Smart exhibits regularly through