Sally McKay (born 1961) works in both two and three dimensions and exhibits widely across the UK. The moving figure, rhythm and energy are central to her practice. She works with performers drawing them in rehearsal and sculpting life size figures in wire. In her drawings, which are on show this week, she seeks to capture the essence of a person through looking at their movement, their impact on space and drawing the trace that is left behind.
A Fine Art and Dance graduate of Goldsmiths College, Sally spent a decade working in film and publishing before returning to work as a visual artist and completing her MA in Fine Art at the City and Guilds of London Art School.
A series of residencies with contemporary dance companies such as the Siobhan Davies Dance Company, The Cholmondeleys and The Featherstonehaughs, and the integrated dance company CandoCo; Circus Space in Hoxton and a residency at the contemporary dance school Laban in Deptford, have fuelled and developed Sally's fascination with the moving figure. She says, 'the rhythmic human body - the way in which the body intervenes in space and the moments of contact - represents a celebration of life, and interconnectedness. I focus on the work of performers, because they offer an intense understanding of the body, in relationship to itself to others and to the world. I aim to capture an evocative trace of energy, the shadows of people now vanished from sight .'
EXHIBITIONS
The Affordable Art Fair, NYC 2007
The Affordable Art Fair Spring Collection, London 2007
Lewis Elton Gallery , University of Surrey , January 2007
GV Art, London, June 2006
Snape Maltings, Suffolk, August 2006
South Hill Park, Bracknell, February 2006
Queen Elizabeth Hall, May 2005
Waterside Arts Centre, Manchester, March 2005
The Art of Love, The Arndean Gallery, Cork Street, London, February 2004
Gallery@oneOtwo, Shoreditch, London, 2003 and January 2004
Laban, Deptford, London, November 2004
OXO Tower, 2003 and 2005
Gallery, Poole
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