South African visual artist Sarah Walmsley

Sarah Walmsley

South Africa | 4 artworks for sale

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  • Searching (Inset) - Sculpture by Sarah Walmsley Searching (Inset)
    Sculpture / 22 x 64 cm
    R28 850
  • Morning - Sculpture by Sarah Walmsley Morning
    Sculpture / 15 x 31 cm
    R32 000
  • Disconnected - Sculpture by Sarah Walmsley Disconnected
    Sculpture / 17 x 31 cm
    R31 000
  • #Nofilter - Sculpture by Sarah Walmsley #Nofilter
    Sculpture / 35 x 36 cm
    R28 000
  • Tessa - Sculpture by Sarah Walmsley
    Tessa
    Sculpture / 17 x 41 cm
  • Serendipity (Diptych) - Sculpture by Sarah Walmsley
    Serendipity (Diptych)
    Sculpture / 44 x 38 cm
  • Disconnected - Sculpture by Sarah Walmsley
    Disconnected
    Sculpture / 20 x 33 cm
  • Morning (bronze) - Sculpture by Sarah Walmsley
    Morning (bronze)
    Sculpture / 16 x 31 cm
  • I Can See You  Ed.6 of 24 - Sculpture by Sarah Walmsley
    I Can See You Ed.6 of 24
    Sculpture / 8 x 40 cm
  • #Nofilter  Ed. 2/6 - Sculpture by Sarah Walmsley
    #Nofilter Ed. 2/6
    Sculpture / 31 x 35 cm
  • Morning (resin) Edition 1/24 - Sculpture by Sarah Walmsley
    Morning (resin) Edition 1/24
    Sculpture / 16 x 31 cm
  • Searching II (resin) Edition 1/24 - Sculpture by Sarah Walmsley
    Searching II (resin) Edition 1/24
    Sculpture / 16 x 83 cm
  • Searching I (clear resin) Edition 1/12 - Sculpture by Sarah Walmsley
    Searching I (clear resin) Edition 1/12
    Sculpture / 21 x 80 cm
  • Everything The Light Touches - Glass Sculpture by Sarah Walmsley
    Everything The Light Touches
    Glass Sculpture / 29 x 51 cm
  • Morning (bronze) Edition 1/12 - Sculpture by Sarah Walmsley
    Morning (bronze) Edition 1/12
    Sculpture / 16 x 31 cm
  • Serendipity I (bronze) Edition 1/24 - Sculpture by Sarah Walmsley
    Serendipity I (bronze) Edition 1/24
    Sculpture / 17 x 165 cm
  • Searching (Inset) - Sculpture by Sarah Walmsley
    Searching (Inset)
    Sculpture / 20 x 69 cm
  • Presently Absent 1/24 - Sculpture by Sarah Walmsley
    Presently Absent 1/24
    Sculpture / 14 x 36 cm
  • The Trace 3/24 - Sculpture by Sarah Walmsley
    The Trace 3/24
    Sculpture / 16 x 35 cm
  • Disconnected - Sculpture by Sarah Walmsley
    Disconnected
    Sculpture / 17 x 31 cm
Walmsley’s work offers a new approach to the sculptural female nude. Her emotive sculptures gracefully bear the weight of their experience as they communicate with each other and their viewers. Through these sculptures, she aims to represent women, by women, in the way they would like to be represented. She creates her figurative sculptures in the mediums of bronze, glass and resin.

Through the body language and essence of her sculptures combined with the mediums in which they are created, she aims to visually portray absence and presence using the body as an allegory. This is set within a narrative of personal memory. Walmsley’s work also addresses the ways in which the female body has been voyeuristically represented in art and aims to reclaim the female nude, through representations of ‘naked nudes’ and honest portraits by a female artist. These portraits aim to honour and celebrate the power, strength and beauty of women and represent their intersectional identities.


Masters Fine Art Sculpture (Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University)

Sarah Walmsley was born in Port Elizabeth and completed her BTech in Fine Art Sculpture (cum laude) in 2015 and graduated with her Masters in Fine Art Sculpture from Nelson Mandela University in April 2019. Walmsley has taken part in about 50 group exhibitions across South Africa including the Absa L’Atelier and Sasol New Signatures Regional Finalist Exhibitions. She had her first solo exhibition with StateoftheART Gallery in Cape Town in April 2018.


Exhibitions:
2019:
Murmurs of Earth, Art on Avenues, Corner of Drama and Caledon St, Somerset West
Star Garden, Platform 13, 146b Main Road, Fish Hoek
Group Show, State of the ART Gallery, Cape Town, Western Cape
The Blushful Hippocrene, Knysna Fine Art, 6 Long St, Knysna Central, Knysna
African Art Collective: Autumn Edition, Julie Miller Investment Art Institute, Midrand, Johannesburg, Gauteng
We Are Present, Bird Street Gallery Nelson Mandela University, Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape
Creative Festival 4th Edition (Colours of You SA), The Gallery, Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape
Postgraduate Exhibition of Sculpture and Painting: Presented by Nelson Mandela University (National Arts Festival), Carinus Art Centre, Makhanda/Grahamstown, Eastern Cape.
The Winter Exhibition, Platform 13, 146b Main Road, Fish Hoek
Women’s Month Exhibition, Knysna Fine Art, 6 Long St, Knysna Central, Knysna, Western Cape
Women’s Exhibition, Alliance Francaise, Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape
Configuration, GFI Art Gallery, 30 Park Drive Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape

2018:
Masters Graduate Exhibition, Bird Street Gallery Nelson Mandela University, Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape
Summer Show, The Boutique Gallery, Franschhoek, Western Cape.
Absence and Presence: In Search of Memory and the Imago, Solo Exhibition at State of the ART Gallery, Cape Town, Western Cape
Fresh Pulp Exhibition, ArtEC Gallery, Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape
Untitled 08/18, State of the ART Gallery, Cape Town, Western Cape
Postgraduate Sculpture Exhibition: Presented by Nelson Mandela University (National Arts Festival), Carinus Art Centre, Makhanda, Eastern Cape
SculptX Fair, The Melrose Gallery, High Street, Melrose Arch, Johannesburg, Gauteng
 
2017:
The Human Landscape, ArtEC, Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape
National Arts Festival NMMU Sculpture and Painting Exhibition, Carinus Art Centre, Grahamstown, Eastern Cape
Untitled | Spring, State of the ART Gallery, Cape Town, Western Cape
Summer Show, The Boutique Gallery, Franschhoek, Western Cape.
Paradisiac, Daniel Kok Galery, Hermanus.
Art Meander, Bird Street Gallery Nelson Mandela University, Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape
Dialogues, State of the ART Gallery, Cape Town, Western Cape
 
2016:
In the Making, ArtEC, Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape
Skate Create Exhibition, at the Colours of You South Africa Creative Festival, Port Elizabeth (invited artist)
Art Meander, Art on Target, Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape
NMMU Bird Street Gallery Pop-Up Exhibition, NMMU Bird Street Art Gallery, Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape
Beneath the Skin Exhibition, State of the ART Gallery, Cape Town, Western Cape
Intersectionality Exhibition, NMMU South Campus, Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape
 
2015:
Aphrodisiac Exhibition, Cavalli Estate, Somerset West, Western Cape
Barclay’s L’Atelier Regional Finalists Exhibition, NMMU North Campus, Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape
Barclay’s L’Atelier Top 100 National Finalists Exhibition, Absa Gallery, Johannesburg, Gauteng (catalogue)
National Arts Festival NMMU Exhibition, Trinity Hall, Grahamstown, Eastern Cape
Parcels of Memory Exhibition, Gallerie Noko, Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape
Sasol New Signatures Regional Finalists Exhibition, NMMU North Campus, Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape

2014:
Parergons of the Divine Virgule Exhibition, ArtEC Gallery, Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape
Sasol New Signatures Top 100 National Finalist Exhibition, Pretoria Art Museum, Gauteng (catalogue)
Shades of Pink Exhibition, Gallerie Noko, Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape
NMMU BTech Graduate Exhibition, Athenaeum , Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape
NEWNOWNEXT Exhibition, Gallerie Noko, Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape
Equus Exhibition, Cavalli Estate, Somerset West, Western Cape


2013:
Modern Miniatures Exhibition, ART Gallery and at National Arts Festival, Grahamstown, Eastern Cape
Small Works Great Concepts Exhibition, ART Gallery, Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape
NMMU Graduate Exhibition, Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape