SALLY ANDERSON FINALIST IN 2024 SIR JOHN SULMAN PRIZE AT THE ART GALLERY OF NEW SOUTH WALES

Sally Anderson is a finalist in the 2024 Sir John Sulman Prize at the Art Gallery of New South Wales

“How do you hold a hurricane? How do you hold close things that are spiralling out of your control? Can you contain the sea in a quilt? How do we measure domestic, creative and maternal labour? With time? How does one get more time in a day? How do we hold households, partners, children, paintings, parents and ourselves simultaneously? This painting speaks to the ways motherhood, domesticity and creative practice are, for me, reciprocal and ultimately entangled. Each informs and infects the other. This work deliberately dances between abstraction and representation and employs still-life and landscape motifs as symbols of containment and care. Sally Anderson, 2024

The Sulman Prize is awarded for the best subject painting, genre painting or mural project by an Australian artist. Established within the terms of Sir John Sulman’s bequest, the prize was first awarded in 1936. Each year the trustees of the Art Gallery of NSW invite a guest artist to judge this open competition. Exhibition current 8 June to 8 September.

Sally Anderson
𝙃𝙤𝙡𝙙𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙖 𝙝𝙪𝙧𝙧𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙣𝙚, 𝙦𝙪𝙞𝙡𝙩 𝙘𝙪𝙧𝙩𝙖𝙞𝙣 𝙘𝙖𝙧𝙧𝙮𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙨𝙚𝙖
2024
synthetic polymer paint on canvas
182.5 x 198.2 cm