Exhibition Launch | Sally Smart: The Artists Ballet
Next date: Saturday, 02 August 2025 | 06:00 PM
to 08:00 PM
Rockhampton Museum of Art invites you to celebrate the official opening of Commissioning Collective Sally Smart: The Artists Ballet.
Recognised internationally for her large-scale assemblage installations, Sally Smart, through the philanthropic endeavours of the Commissioning Collective Patrons, has created a major new work The Artists Ballet for Rockhampton Museum of Art’s Long Gallery, responding to the monumental yet intimate scale of this space through exploration of the legacies of theatre and visual art.
Commissioning Collective: Sally Smart is purchased with funds provided to Rockhampton Museum of Art Gift Fund through the support of RMOA Philanthropy and the Commissioning Collective patrons.
Your ticket includes:
- exhibition entry
- special live performance
- canapé menu
- champagne on arrival
TICKETED | $55.00 RMOA Member or $65.00, online bookings essential.
Please note, due to the nature of the event, dietary requirements can not be catered for (some gluten free options are available).
Image: Sally Smart, Studio Portrait. Photo: G Lorenzutti.
About the Artist: Sally Smart |
Sally Smart is one of Australia’s most dynamic and sought after contemporary visual artists. Living and working on Wurundjeri/Boon Wurrung Country, Melbourne, Smart is recognised internationally for her large-scale assemblage installations, collage painting and film performance works.
The artist takes collage out of its traditional domain of small-scale paper and scales it up to dramatic effect, applying it to other media, including textiles, sculpture and even metal, creating captivating installations that invite and suggest multiple perspectives and interpretations.
Smart’s practice explores identity politics and transnational ideas that have shaped global culture, expressed through the body, extending particularly into an interest in female representation. Manipulating the historical patriarchal designation of textiles as a ‘feminine art’, Smart imbues her collage, large-scale installations, video, and sculptures with an inquisitive, intelligent, sensual and even subversive sense of playfulness and sensuality.
Her work is accessible to a wide audience without sacrificing additional levels of meaning and discovery for those that are prepared to investigate further.
Smart has been exhibiting regularly since 1990 nationally and internationally, and has been prominently featured in The Artist’s House, Matisse Alive Commission, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia (2021- 2022); and The Artist’s Ballet for The National, Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) Sydney (2021); Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art (2014), GOMA’s Australian Contemporary: Women (2012), Odyssey: Navigating Nameless Seas, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore (2016); as well as solo exhibitions in institutions such as Japan’s Fukuoka Art Museum, the Embassy of Australia, Washington and Postmasters Gallery, New York.
The artist has completed many spectacular public and private commissions for institutions such as Art Gallery of Ballarat, the Royal Women’s Hospital, Bendigo Art Gallery and the Visible Art Foundation.
When
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Saturday, 02 August 2025 | 06:00 PM
- 08:00 PM