Episode 250 - Painting, motherhood and the poetry of everyday observation with Sally Lee Andersen

Send us Fan Mail Sally Anderson’s work is strongly influenced by her personal life, including her experiences of home, motherhood and relationships, as well as second hand experiences of landscapes. She explores how meaning and memory are held, stored and carried. Born in Lismore, Sally Anderson began studying Visual Art at Southern Cross University before moving to the College of Fine Art in Sydney. She has been a finalist in the Sulman Prize at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, the Portia Geach Memorial Award, the Sunshine Coast Art Prize and the Paddington Art Prize. In 2014 she took part in a residency with the Association of Icelandic Visual Artists in Reykjavik, Iceland. In 2017 she won the Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship through the Art Gallery of NSW and completed a residency at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris. These ideas continue in her upcoming exhibition at N Smith Gallery, opening on 9 April. Called Holding Pattern, River Hug , it builds on her interest in cycles, care, and repetition, with new paintings that shift between abstract and more realistic forms. Sally is represented by N.Smith Gallery (Sydney, Australia) and Edwina Corlette Gallery (Brisbane, Australia).

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Episode 250 - Painting, motherhood and the poetry of everyday observation with Sally Lee Andersen is an episode from Art Wank by Fiona Verity, Julie Nicholson and Gary Seller .

This episode is 63:57 long.

This episode was published on Apr 7, 2026.

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