• Born 1962, Melbourne, Victoria
• www.sallydarlison.com

Qualifications 

• 2019 Writing and Illustrating a Children’s Picture Book, Short Course, RMIT
• 2006 Diploma of Visual Arts, Major - Printmaking, Box Hill Institute of TAFE
• 2005 Certificate IV Workplace Assessment and Training, Box Hill Institute of TAFE
• 2001 Diploma of Arts, Studio Stitch/Textiles, Box Hill Institute of TAFE
• 1987 Graduate Diploma Music Education, Victoria College, Toorak
• 1983 Diploma of Teaching (Primary), Victoria College, Toorak

Solo Exhibitions 

• 2025 Wild Places, Meeniyan Gallery, Victoria

Herbert café, Northcote 

Tinker café, Northcote 

• 2024 Remote, No Vacancy Gallery, Melbourne
• 2022 On High, Little Local café, Northcote
• 2015 Fragments of a Journey, Meeniyan Art Gallery, Meeniyan
• 2014 Not All Who Wander Are Lost, Quadrant Gallery, Hawthorn
• 2010 Long Socks: Red Gallery, Nth Fitzroy
• 2007 In My Father’s Shoes: Charles Smith Gallery, Fitzroy
• 2005 Mapping Memories:  Lumina Gallery, Malvern

Selected Group Exhibitions

• 2025 - Affordable Art Fair, Melbourne

- Glimpse, Yarra sculpture gallery

- Tangles/detangles, Naarm Textiles Collective Glen Eira Art Gallery

- Melbourne Flower Show, MAVA

• 2024 - Rutherglen Art Prize, Rutherglen, Vic 

- MAVA prize winners, The Memo, - Healesville

• 2023 - EGAG Wrap 2023, East Gippsland Art gallery 

- Art for All, Fairfield PS, Fairfield

- Uncommon Threads, Naarm Textile collective, Fortyfivedownstairs gallery 

- Melbourne Flower Show, MAVA, Exhibition Buildings, Melbourne

- Threadilicious, Stonehouse gallery, Warrandyte

- BSG Fifty Squared Art prize, Fitzroy

- Tutors exhibition, Ararat gallery TAMA, 

• 2022 - Stitching Change, Forty-five Downstairs, Melbourne

- Redrospective, Red gallery, Fitzroy nth

- Art4All, Fairfield PS, Fairfield Vic

- Tactile, Geelong Art Space, Geelong

• 2016 - Creative Perspectives, Quadrant gallery,     Hawthorn
• 2015 - Model Urban, MC2 Gallery, Manningham Council, Doncaster

- TEAR, International Women’s Day Exhibition, Chapel on Station, Box Hill

• 2014 - Small Works, bsg, Fitzroy
• 2013 - 8th Annual Artist Book Exhibition, Artisan Books, Fitzroy
• 2012 - Beautiful Soup, print exhibition, St Heliers, Abbotsford Convent; curator- Rona Green
• 2011 - Opus, Artist Book exhibition, Artisan Books, Fitzroy
• 2010 - Atlas, Artist Book exhibition, Artisan Books, Fitzroy
• 2008 - She Who Explores, Walker Street Gallery, Dandenong

Into The Fold, Artists Books exhibition, Artisan Books Fitzroy

• 2007 - Off the Wall, Art Melbourne 07 Melbourne Exhibition Building 

- Fiber Cartography: Mapping Imagination and Experience; Lynn Tendler Bignell Gallery, Brookfield Craft Center, Connecticut USA.  Curator; Liz Good.

Sally has exhibited in group exhibitions in Australia and overseas for the past 28 years

Artist Residencies

• 2025 NG Creative art residencies, Provence France 
• 2023 Lighthouse Arts, Newcastle, 5 days

Collections

Charles Sturt University NSW Art Collection 

Roberts McCubbin P.S.

Emmaus College, Vermont 

Thomastown Meadows PS

Trinity Grammar Chapel

Box Hill Institute TAFE

Awards

• 2023 MAVA art prize, Runner Up – Most cost effective 
• 2010 Roberts McCubbin P.S. Art Show - Best Open Medium 
• 2006 Box Hill Institute Printmaking Award, Judge - Rebecca Mayo
• 2005 Roberts McCubbin Artist’s camp Fair Art Show – Highly Commended

Publications

• 2022 Textile Fibre Forum, issue #148, Dec 2022
• 2014 Embellish, December edition
• Infusion 1, Emagazine. 
• 2011 Australian Book Arts Journal, Issue 5, 
• 2010 Textile Fibre Forum, Issue 4 no. 100, 2010, p24,25
• 2009 The Map as Art, Contemporary Artists Explore Cartography, ed. Katherine Harmon, Princeton Architectural Press, NY,2009, p.77
• 2008 Textile Fibre Forum, issue 1, no. 89, 2008 Boundless books", pg 48
• 2006 Fiberarts magazine, Summer 2006, Vol 33, no. 1  
• 2006 Fibre forum Magazine (issue 3 no. 83) 
• 2001 Fibre forum Magazine (issue 4, no 6