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Judy Sale's background is unusual as she has moved house and studio so many times that her work is now best broken into Collections from each different country where she has practiced and shown her work. In spite of being born in an uninspiring, small town in the middle of the USA, she has spent all her adult life living elsewhere; eight different countries in all. In 1993, she obtained dual nationality and today she is equally American and British, as well as European, in her outlook on all things. The lived in experience of other cultures is therefore evident in the diversity of her abstract and eclectic styles of art practice over the years. Her work is never intended to be a replica of what is out there but rather a compilation of found objects, colours, textures and sometimes texts that are selected along the way. She enjoys the challenge of taking something well read and putting it into another context. This is a result of the way she herself has had to uproot and find new ways of living and making life work for her.
Besides her art practice, she has found the time to become actively and personally involved in restoring ancient buildings as well. She is today responsible for a number of properties having been tastefully restored in Cyprus and Italy as well as in the UK. Using that same ability to pick up the pieces and start again as she has used in her life and ongoing practice as a professional artist, she has made a difference. Her work is confident and quirky but never dull or predictable. Change can be exciting when you learn to live with it and learn from it.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2007-10 Colomba D'Oro Hotel Permanent Exhibition, Triora IM Italy 2002 Limehouse Cut Studios, London, England 2000 Jeffery~West, Piccadilly Arcade, London, England 1993 Gallery Gloria, Nicosia, Cyprus 1993 Morphi Gallery, Limassol, Cyprus 1989 Edith Grove Gallery, London, England 1989 Ayling-Porteous Gallery, Chester, England 1987 Richard Demarco Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland 1987 Mazelow Gallery, Toronto, Canada 1986 Lunga Gallery, Argyll, Scotland 1983 Edwin Young Gallery, Salisbury, England 1983 McDowell Gallery, Toronto, Canada
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2001-02 Royal Mint Exhibition, London 2001 SE1 Gallery/Workplace Art at Bankside, London, England 2000 70/2000: The Road to Maeikie Seggie Touring Exhibition, Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston University, touring UK, USA and Europe 1999 Dove Everyday Icons Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London, England 1998-00 Workplace Art, London, England 1995 Morphi Gallery, Limassol, Cyprus 1994 The Whitechapel Open Studios, London, England 1992 Brushstrokes Across Cultures, Famagusta Gate and HP Gallery, Nicosia, Cyprus 1992 Art for a Fairer World, Glasgow, Cardiff and London, UK 1990 Homage to the Square; Flaxman Gallery, London, England 1990 London Group, Gulbenkian Gallery, Royal College of Art, London, England 1990 International Contemporary Art Fair, London, England 1989 The Laing Competition, Manchester and Mall Galleries, London, England 1988 York Contemporary Art Fair, York, England 1988 Sothebys at Chelsea Arts Club, London, England 1988 Warwick Arts Trust, London, England 1987-88 Richard Demarco Gallery at Bath Art Fair, Bath, England 1987 Ayling-Porteous Gallery, Chester, England 1987 Bruton Gallery, Bruton, England 1987-88 Main Fine Art, Glasgow, Scotland 1987 Touring Exhibition with Washington Gallery, Glasgow, Hendricks Gallery, Dublin Smith Galleries, London, Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh 1986 Wykeham Galleries, Stockbridge, England 1985 International Contemporary Art Fair, London, England 1984 Mazelow Gallery, Toronto, Canada 1981 Free Painters and Sculptors Society, London, England 1981 New York International Art Fair, New York, USA
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
The Royal Mint Collection, London, England Wiltshire County Council, UK The Lawrence Co. Bank, IL. USA The Republic Bank of Dallas, USA Tetrapak HQ, UK, Ltd Mitutoyo HQ Uk Ltd Robert Langen Gallery Wilfreid Laurier Univ. L'Onda Beach Hotel, Limassol Cyprus Waterloo, Ontario, Canada Meridien Hotel, Limassol, Cyprus Warwick Arts Trust, London, England Malpas Simmons, Blandford Forum, UK John Cullen Lighting Co. London England Corp. and private collections UK, USA, |
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