Sleep Sounds uses still life and borrowed landscapes (from my son’s ‘white noise’ (baby sleep sounds app)) to explore ways we experience landscape from the comfort of our own homes. The places in this app, I have neither been to nor heard of, yet my experience of them is so intimate. I fall asleep to the sound of ‘a river near Mount St Helens’ most nights. Landscape is surprisingly very present in the home. I find it on textiles, postcards on the fridge, in vases, hanging on walls, and experience it on devices and screens. Instagram stories allow me to experience landscapes on other people’s holidays. I find myself questioning the authenticity of this experience.
These works furthermore extend my ongoing exploration into ways we store memory and experience in landscape and object. They also reflect my time spent at home since recently having a baby. Works feature swamp banksia flowers from my backyard and orchids from Guido’s second night out since our son was born. The works are loaded with autobiographical content and use abstracted rooms, still life and borrowed landscapes to reference everyday intimate experience held in object and place.
Born in Lismore, NSW, Sally Anderson began her undergraduate studies in Visual Art at Southern Cross University before transferring to the College of Fine Art (COFA) in Sydney. Most recently Anderson was awarded the prestigious Brett Whiteley Travelling Arts Scholarship 2017, a three month residency at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris which is administered by the Art Gallery of New South Wales to further her art’s education. Collections include Southern Cross University, New South Wales as well as private collections in Australia, England, Canada and USA.
