Sally Darlison
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
b.1962
Qualifications
2019 ▫ Writing and Illustrating a Children’s Picture Book, Short Course, RMIT
2006 : Diploma of Visual Arts, Major Printmaking, Box Hill Institute of TAFE
2005 : Certificate IV Workplace Assessment and Training, Box Hill Institute of TAFE
2001 : Diploma of Arts, Studio Stitch/Textiles, Box Hill Institute of TAFE
1987 : Graduate Diploma Music Education, Victoria College, Toorak
1983 : Diploma of Teaching (Primary), Victoria College, Toorak
Solo Exhibitions
2022 On High, Little Local Cafe, Northcote
2015 Fragments of a Journey, Meeniyan Art Gallery, Meeniyan
2014 Not All Who Wander Are Lost, Quadrant Gallery, Hawthorn
2010 Long Socks: Red Gallery, Nth Fitzroy
2007 In My Father’s Shoes: Charles Smith Gallery, Fitzroy
2005 Mapping Memories: Lumina Gallery, Malvern
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023
Uncommon Threads, NAARM Textile collective, Forty-five downstairs, Melbourne, October 17-28
Ararat Gallery TAMA ,Tutors exhibition Feb- April
Melbourne Flower and Garden Show, MAVA
2023 Fifty Squared Art prize, Brunswick Street gallery, Fitzroy
Threadilicious, Stonehouse Gallery, Warrandyte
2022
Stitching Change, Naarm Collective, Forty-five downstairs, Melbourne
Tactile, Geelong Art Space, Geelong
Art4All, Fairfield P.S.
REDtrospective, Red gallery, Fitzroy Nth
2021
Stitching Change, Naarm Textile Co, online
2018
▫ Textile Palette Exhibition, Red Door Gallery on Fraser, Clunes
2016
▫ Creative Perspectives, Quadrant Gallery, Hawthorn
2015
▫ TEAR International Women’s Day Exhibition, Chapel on Station, Box Hill
▫ Model Urban, MC2, Manningham Art Gallery, Doncaster
2014
▫Small Works, BSG, Fitzroy
2013
▫ 5 Frames, Couta Boat Club, Sorrento
▫ Summer, Quadrant Gallery, Hawthorn
▫ 8th Annual Artist Book Exhibition, Artisan Books, Fitzroy
2012
▫ The Sketchbook Project
▫ Beautiful Soup, print exhibition, St Heliers, Abbotsford Convent
2011
▫ 9 x 5, Walker St Gallery, Dandenong
▫ Bound and Bagged, online exhibition, Australian Book Arts Journal
▫ Over Under, intertwined 9 , Opendrawer, Camberwell
▫ Girls Bust Out, Canterbury Girls S C
▫ Opus, Artist Book exhibition, Artisan Books, Fitzroy
▫ Matchbox Zine online exhibition, Australian Book Arts Journal
2010
▫ Expressions Wool Quilt Award, Geelong Wool Museum( group entry)
▫ Atlas, Artist Book exhibition, Artisan Books , Fitzroy
▫ One Step Further, Art Quilt Exhibition (group entry)
2009
▫ Small Works, bsg, Fitzroy
2008
▫ She Who Explores, Walker Street Gallery, Dandenong
▫ Into The Fold, Artists Books exhibition, Artisan Books Fitzroy
2007
▫ Off the Wall, Art Melbourne 07 Melbourne Exhibition Building
▫ Fiber Cartography: Mapping Imagination and Experience; Lynn Tendler Bignell Gallery, Brookfield Craft Center, Connecticut USA. Curator; Liz Good.
2006
▫ ‘Shoot The breeze’ Graduate Exhibition Box Hill TAFE Visual Arts Diploma, CUSP gallery Northcote
▫ Expressions Wool Quilt Award 2006 , Geelong Wool Museum
▫ Hurrah! Exhibition, Steps Gallery, Carlton
▫ Crossroads –Inter-twined 9 exhibition, Steps Gallery, Carlton.
2004
▫ Expressions 2004 Wool Quilt Award Geelong Wool Museum
▫ Embroiderers Guild “Tiny Tarts and Petite Fours” Exhibition
2003
▫ ‘A4 Max’ – Inter-twined 9 Exhibition at Charles Smith Gallery, Fitzroy
▫ Miniature Textile National – Beechworth
2002
▫ Friends of the Zoos Exhibition
▫ Expressions 2002 Wool Quilt Award – Geelong Wool Museum
▫ Embroiderers Guild “From Hands and Heart”
▫ Friends for Craft – Steps Gallery Carlton
▫ Textile Fibre Forum, Geelong – “Divisions and Boundaries” – Inter-twined 9
2001
▫ Embroiderers Guild – “Threads of Imagination”
▫ 4cats Gallery Abbotsford – Carnival; Graduate Exhibition
Sally has exhibited in group exhibitions in Australia and overseas since 1997
Collections
Charles Sturt University, NSW
Roberts McCubbin P.S.
Trinity Grammar Chapel
Emmaus College Burwood
Box Hill Institute TAFE
Private collections both nationally and internationally
Publications
Textile Fibre Forum Magazine, (p15 Issue 148,Dec 2022)
Embellish, (issue 20,December 2014), An Interview with Sally Darlison,pg 3-5.
Threads.In-fusion 5, E-mag ( issue 5, July 2014), Journeys
Australian Book Arts Journal (p 54-57 issue 5,June 2011)
TEXTILE Fibre forum Magazine, (p. 24,25 Issue 4 no. 100), 2010
The Map as Art, Contemporary Artists Explore Cartography, ed. Katherine Harmon, Princeton Architectural Press, NY,2009,p.77
TEXTILE Fibre Forum, issue 1, no. 89, 2008 Boundless books”, pg 48
TEXTILE Fibre forum Magazine (issue 3 no. 83) 2006
Fiberarts Summer 2006.
TEXTILE Fibre forum Magazine (issue 4, no 64) 2001
Sally was a Primary teacher and Art teacher for 38 years, she has taught at Box Hill Institute in the Textile Art Diploma and lectured at Latrobe University in The Arts in the Primary Education Graduate Diploma. She worked as an Artist in residence for 10 years during the 90’s. She has also run workshops for the Embroiderers Guild, Grampians Textures and privately.