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Sally notices both the detail and the bigger picture. She is creative, adaptable and practical, approaching challenges with ingenuity, innovation and enthusiasm while setting and achieving high standards. Her excellent communication skills enable her to nurture and motivate others. She is a good team player with a strong sense of community and a deep sense of fairness. Above all she enjoys fun and is prepared to take a risk.

Listed below are all Sally's projects:


Artist-curator: interactive live art/installations in gallery/non-gallery spaces. 2000-10

Conversations, nationally | Wishes Booth, Chesterfield Library | Where's the art?, Derby | Wishing tree, Garden of light, Chesterfield | 600 billion nanoseconds, Arnolfini gallery, Bristol | The site of art, Shining Cliff woods | Parcels, 3CYLINDERS, Grassmoor | Hide and seek, 3CYLINDERS around Derbyshire | Watching Art Happen, Nan-Nana, Nottingham | Selection, Inbetweentime Live Art Festival, Arnolfini Gallery Bristol | Breakdown, Harvest Moon Fayre | And us? Open Wide Festival, Bretton | StatuS, 3CYLINDERS, Matlock Live | Intersection, ShowRoom, Bonington Gallery | Quest, Millfield Arts Centre, London / Place...d, MoDA, London | The Unseen, Riverside Centre, Belper | Clocking on...clocking off, Riverside Centre, Belper | Missing Person, Wirksworth Arts Festival / Swap, Wirksworth Arts Festival | Human Remains, Nottingham Trent University | Significance: dying Lorna rests her case, Nottingham Trent University | Women’s Story Exchange, Amber Valley Festival.

Arts management: co-founding caravan, the Amber Valley arts organisation for 27 members; securing funding from Arts Council England, Awards For All, local authorities and others; managing projects and budgets. 2003-07
3CYLINDERS, live art in rural settings around Derbyshire, 7 events, 84 artists, 1623 audience, 66 new works | Playmates, arts workshops for very young children | Nan bursary, visiting Fold in Cumbria | Where are you now? exhibition of 3D work, Belper | Where you belong, artstrail for 12 artists, 9 sites, Belper | Wild Water, Ripley arts centre launch | Current Rumours, exhibition of painting, installation, projection, live art | 13 artists, 521 audience, Belper Riverside Centre.

Collaborations: working with other artists to make big social comments through live art, projection and installation in non-gallery spaces. 1990-10
2SALLY4TH: Ignition, Bournemouth | Gathering, 9 Ladies | Over the Garden Fence, MatlockLive! | In Passing We Remain, Norwich | NY Traces, Cornwall | Lost Community Foundation, South Normanton | Chain, South Normanton. Hollywood or spoon: Every Little Helps, Belper | ID, 3CYLINDERS at MatlockLive! | Divided, Surface Gallery Nottingham | Caged Countries, 3CYLINDERS at Belper | Binding Contract, Riverside Centre | Running Scared, Wirksworth Arts Festival | It’s mine, Wirksworth Arts Festival | Veiled Silence, Derby | She Balance, The Big Green Gathering | Pink-nic, Nottingham City Centre.

Participating in other artists' work. 2004-2008.
Antony Gormley, One & Other | The Beermat Show, Halifax | Bill Drummond, 17, Derby | Third Angel, Standing Alone Standing Together | Raphael Lozano-Hemmer, Under Scan, East Midlands.

Participatory arts: workshops for children and adults to find their voices using installation, live art, billboards, video. 2002-10
Playful Stories, Heanor Langley School and Biggin School | Dynamic Stories, Gayton School | Wishes, Chesterfield Library | Wiggles, under 5s and their adults, Mickleover Children's Centre | Sensory Science, St Giles School | Telling Tales, St Giles School | Coming to the table, Littleover School | Live Art, Grassmoor Primary School | Healthy Hearts, Aldercar Infants School | CARA, Croft Infants & St Elizabeth’s R.C. School | Installations, Littleover School | Wild Water, Ripley Mill Hill Arts Centre | ACT, Ironville drama club for young people | The Drama of Time, Fleet Arts Centre, Belper | Quest, St Elizabeth’s R.C. School, Belper | Having a Glimpse, Derbyshire Children’s Literature Festival | Consulting Young Mothers, Wirksworth ‘Now’ Project | Making Her Visible, Amber Valley.

Supporting arts projects in education and faciltating cpd. 1995-2009.
WHart, Wirksworth Festival Young Curators | Beyond Words, creative evidencing for Arts Award | Artists' Voice, cross arts advocacy in East Midlands |creative agent for Creative Partnerships Derby, stepUP development for BAME artists, Cabinets of Curiosity for Young People's Voice, Maximum Impact St Andrew's School | S.E.N. trainer, Swansea, Neath and Port Talbot.

Teaching in all phases, mainstream and special schools, independent and voluntary sector. Special Educational Needs Advisor. 1971-2007
West Yorkshire, Cheshire, Wakefield, Derbyshire, Derby.

Voluntary work. 1994-2009
member of DADG visual arts subgroup; school governor; basic skills tutor.

Education & qualifications
MA Contemporary Curatorial Practice July 08
Birmingham City University Oct. 08
PG Cert. in Curating Dartington College of Arts Oct. 06
MA Fine Art Nottingham Trent University July 01
BA Degree Open University Dec. 95
City & Guilds Embroidery Chesterfield College July 85/87
Certificate in Education Bretton Hall College of Education July 71

References on request


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