The artist behind Salugallery

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"A scream wrapped in a story"

Sandy's work tells stories inspired by her observation and admiration of Nature's capacity to unite dualities and thrive on this alliance. She sees our environment as an intricate symbiosis of dualities, vital to fostering life. Through this perspective, her art explores our Origin, Identity, the relativity of Reality, and the role of Chaos in Change.

A few years ago, she lost her first means of self-expression. Life happened and ended up offering a fascinating new prospect. Through connection and introspection, her health struggles guided her to meet the artist within. What a chaotic, natural, and revealing encounter!

She experiences every creation as a union with previously unknown parts of herself and the world. This association likely explains why her work is primarily abstract or figurative and uses natural materials. Whenever Sandy is stick-drawing, painting with tea and fruit infusions, crushing colourful rocks for texture, or sculpting with repurposed glass, she enjoys playing with Nature and the inner-outer exploration it offers her.

As she delved into this skin-thin relationship, a natural duality emerged in her creative process: opposing concepts refine each other's definitions and perceptions. Nothing is a greater source of opposition to concepts and materials than creation. The artist deconstructs, even destroys, to produce a new reality. An approach she fully applies when she smashes used materials before sculpting with them. She refers to her process as "creative destruction".

Sandy's art is born of necessity; however, it is worked out and sustained over time. Her creative process feels like a scream wrapped in a story—impulsive yet grounded.

Thanks to her varied inspirations, each viewer discovers different interesting stories in her work, which always makes her smile.

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