Sally Curry

Blessings Sally CurrySally Curry explores the mythic imagination to find images that connect old and new stories.

Sally Curry has been involved in the arts most of her adult life:-firstly as a teacher and then as a mature student majoring in ceramics in a Fine Arts Degree at the Tasmanian School of Art. Since that time she has received many awards for her work including a residency at Falmouth College in Cornwall. Her spirited and earthy creatures contain a feminine ideal. Their refined beauty and transcendental temperament are reflective of Sally’s vehement commitment to her practice.

Sally uses earthenware terracotta, hand-building the sculptures and working the surfaces by smoothing, scraping and impressing the clay with textures of flesh and fabric. The colours are applied in many layers of underglaze and through fine slip stained with natural colours and ochres. She also incorporates found objects such as stones, wood, metal or old china to her work - such additions introduce their own associations of the changes wrought by weather and time.

Sally’s pieces reflect her natural environment and her close ties to friends and family. She lives on the coast where she has her studio, workshop and kiln. From the window she looks out over the sea where the inspiration of land, sea and sky are constant characteristics within the spirit of her creations.
1 Sally Curry - sculptor