Sally Tyrie

I am a Fine Artist working mainly with photography, printmaking, mixed media and bookwork. I have a BA Hons in Fine Art from Nottingham Trent University and an MA in Fine and Applied Arts from the University of Hertfordshire.

 

My work focuses on questions about human experience, place and environment and explores how material and process can create a narrative about these themes.

 

During the pandemic the sense of confinement and being out of place has influenced current investigations around the notion of A sense of displacement.

 

My work has been selected for exhibitions such as Discerning Eye at the Mall Galleries and a group exhibition, Rituals, at The Crypt Gallery, London. This event was reviewed by artist, writer and curator Matt Bray who said of my work that they “reference time as the inescapable master of entropy…. quiet and cerebral, . and offer the time and space to get lost in one’s own thoughts”.

 

I especially value working with other artists on projects that challenge me to work in new ways. In 2016-18 I undertook a collaborative residency at Wicken Fen, Cambridgeshire. This culminated in an exhibition and, with the support of National Trust staff, a series of mixed-media installations in the Hides dotted around the reserve. Through collaboration, I designed, wrote and published a catalogue for this project. Building upon themes from the first, a second project led to an exhibition at Snape in 2020, Tracing Shadows.

 

I am currently involved in Letchworth Windows, a Project Space venture, led by The Broadway Gallery, Letchworth, which involves the installation of work from artists at my studios in Hertfordshire into empty shop windows in Letchworth.

The work in this series has been inspired by visual and historical research into the fragile coastal margins of England’s east coast, particularly the eerie landscape of Bradwell-on-Sea and the Crouch estuary. Rather than a literal representation of landscape, this body of work explores themes of transience, absence, loss and ambiguity. Processes include Print-making, mixed media and stitch

Book Art - concertina form, using Printmaking, Collage and stitch on vintage book covers

10x12cm folded // 67cm open 

 

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