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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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