The Quiet Light
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Sally Bourke (Australian, b.1973): Artist
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2020
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Sally Bourke is a contemporary Australian artist who creates portraits and sculptural objects to reference and reconcile experiences from her past. Born in Dubbo, Sally has lived and worked in Newcastle for the last 20 years. “My earliest memory of making art was sitting on the veranda at my
parents’ house,” she writes, “with a box of those cheap, round watercolours that make ghostly marks on paper.” The faces she depicts reference those early ghostly markings. Painted “from the inside out”, her works capture a haunting glimpse into her characters, rather than a likeness.
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