About the Artist

Sally Rickett

Artists Statement

My practice has evolved intuitively and organically, using the human head as both vehicle and vessel to explore human nature. I have used the knowledge gained through portraiture as the foundation for less literal work. A strange process of learning, then letting go; the letting go has been surprisingly difficult.

I am increasingly interested in the internal world, which is common to us all, rather than physical appearance, and driven by the curiosity and challenge to try to convey the non-physical through the physical, and my quiet obsession of form and texture. The form and texture is intentionally becoming more pared back, less specific to an individual. Increasingly interested in sculpture comprised of groups and series, possibly exploring the duality within us and the commonality between us.

Exploration repeatedly brings me back to the ordinary, average, mundane; deliberately quiet, static, unassuming. I am also the fact that sculpture is an object which ‘occupies’ space and has the potential to have a presence.

However much of my own thoughts and feelings are channeled into my work, I offer them to the viewer for their own interpretation.

CV

Nov 2026 - Apr 2027    Scottish Arts Trust Portrait Exhibition. Scottish National Portrait Gallery Edinburgh

May 26.                         Fidra Fine Art Gullane Group Show

Mar 2026                      Goldfinch Gallery Comrie Group Show

Feb 2026                       Society Scottish Artists 137^th Open Exhibition at RSA

Sept 2024                      Watermill Gallery Aberfeldy Group Show

May 2024                      Inception ‘24 Dalkeith Palace Group Show

Sept 2022                      Scottish Arts Trust ScotPortrait Online Group Show (Longlisted work)

Aug 2021                       Society Scottish Artists Sculpture Now Group Online Show

June 2019                     Scottish Sculpture Workshop. 1 month sculpture residency

2015- 2019                  Scottish Sculpture Workshop. Open Access Residencies 2 -3 weeks each year

June 2016                    Mapstone Studios Devon. Portrait Sculpture Workshop with Valentina Zlatarova.

Sept 2015                    Scottish Sculpture Workshop.  Bronze Casting Intensive Course.

July 2015                     Simona Ragazzi Studios, Bologna. Portrait Sculpture Workshop. 2 weeks

2012-2015                  Glasgow School of Art. Portrait Sculpture Evening Classes for 3 years

2012- 2016                 Birnam Institute. Portrait Sculpture Workshop Weekend Courses

2010-2012                  Birnam Institute. Ceramic evening classes working on sculptural pots and vessels.

1990- 2019                Landscape Architect on a broad range of environmental design projects

1990                             Landscape Architect Professional Chartership

1982-87                      Landscape Architecture BA (Hons) Heriot Watt University