My work is proudly supported by funding and awards from the following agencies:
Member of Visual Artists Ireland
Statement
My sculpture practice is figure-based compositions using ceramics and ferrous cement.
I think of my work as a silent conversation between internal narratives and external gesture and expression. I am drawn to ideas around how our stories shape the construct of our reality and with this, the presentation of the self.
I make figures that encapsulate life's dramas, from intimate inner conflicts to broader societal concerns. I alter body parts - to enable the body to appear both realistic and surreal, through this, I hope the viewer attaches to the familiar and is curious about the things that don't seem to fit.
Some of the work is autobiographical, some are narratives from the lives of others, real or imagined .
Education and Professional Development
2024 Glazing workshop with Herbie Mc Cann, Leitrim Sculpture Center
2024 Sharon Griffin clay sculpture workshop, UK.
2023 Slip mold plaster casting, Flax Art Studio, Belfast N. Ireland
2023 Print Medium. Creative Spark, Dundalk Ireland
2021 Training Needs Analysis and Design, QQI 6 Award F.E.T. Ireland
2007 Diploma Anatomy and Physiology
1996 Night classes bronze casting NCAD Dublin.
1997 Colaiste Cgongaile (Now Marino College) Technical college.
1994 Dublin Institute of Technology (Sheet metal and welding- part time)
Awards and Commissions:
- 2024 Meath County Council Professional Development Fund
- 2022 Irish Arts Council Agility Award Recipient
- 2022 Meath County Arts Office Professional Development Fund
- 2023/3 Commissioned Work for Drogheda Port Company
Solo Exhibitions:
2019 - “Flight (and other stories)” Lily Aguis Gallery, Malta
2012 - “The illusion of permanence “Java Gallery, Phnom Penh
Cambodia.
Recent selected curated exhibitions:
2024
Ranelagh Arts - Winter show "More Than This" (to January 11th)
Royal Ulster Academy - Annual Group Exhibition, Belfast.
Art Riddler - AR24 Charlemont Square, Dublin2
Surveyor Annual Exhibition - Solstice Art Center, Navan.
Summer Exhibition - Ardgillan Castle, Balbriggan, Co Dublin
2023
Surveyor Annual Exhibition - Solstice Art Center, Navan
Art enriches life? The Narrow Space – Clonmel, Co Tipperary Ireland
Hover- Still, Malta Society of Arts, Valletta, Malta
2022 Dual Exhibition - Seamus Ennis Arts Center, Co Dublin
2022 Art Source, Royal Dublin Society , Ireland
2021 Sculpture in Context, Botanic Gardens, Dublin.
Social Media links:
https://www.facebook.com/sallyanne.morgan.90
https://www.instagram.com/sallyannesculpture/
📖 Publications: Irish Arts Review, APERO Catalogue, ARTPAPER Malta, Indulge Magazine, Kathmandu University News, Java Arts News
Times of Malta 2023- https://timesofmalta.com/articles/view/seven-international-artists-hold-collective-exhibition.1042256