BIOGRAPHY
JUDY SALE
16 Limehouse Cut Studios, 46 Morris Road, London, E14 6NQ
Tel/Fax: 020 7537 3421
e-mail judyss@globalnet.co.uk
Judy Sale was born in the Bridgeport IL. USA and holds a BS Degree from Eastern Illinois University where she studied visual arts and art history. She is a citizen of both, the United States, by birth, and the United Kingdom, by decree, in 1993. Judy has lived and worked in 8 different countries and travelled widely to many more. While living in Cyprus, she founded and directed the Monagri Foundation, a charitable foundation established to restore an ancient monastery to become an international Art Centre where foreign artists are selected for temporary residencies and/or exhibitions. As an artist and on behalf of artists worldwide, she has spoken at UNESCOs headquarters in Paris as well as at The Council of Europe in Strasbourg. She is a highly respected and well known figure in the international art world.
She presently works from her studio and home in East London from a converted, Victorian dog biscuit factory where she lives amongst the largest community of artists in Europe.
She is keen to continue her own practice as an artist while keeping involved in the global development of exchanges of artists and their art.
Judy began as a painter but has also worked more three-dimensionally or in relief, utilising the found objects gathered from various parts of the world that now serve as icons of memories past. Drawing has become more important to her too. She appreciates the inherently impulsive marks made when drawing and incorporates that same spontaneity into her paintings on canvas.
PERSONAL DETAILS AND EDUCATION
1946 Born in Indiana, USA
1967 BSc in Education, Eastern Illinois University, USA. Major: Visual Arts
1975 Architecture & Design, Chelsea College of Art, London, England
1993 Obtained dual nationality - British/American
1989-90Director, Monagri Foundation Centre for Contemporary Art, Cyprus
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1980 - 81 Del Bello Gallery, Toronto, Canada
1982 Chalk Farm Gallery, London, England
1983 McDowell Gallery, Toronto, Canada
1983 Edwin Young Gallery, Salisbury, England
1986 Lunga Gallery, Argyll, Scotland
1987 Mazelow Gallery, Toronto, Canada
1987 Richard Demarco Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
1988 Ayling Porteous Gallery, Chester, England
1989 Edith Grove Gallery, London, England
1992 Morphi Gallery, Limassol, Cyprus
1992 Gallery Gloria, Nicosia, Cyprus
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
1981 Free Painters and Sculptors Society, London, England
1981 New York International Art Fair, New York, USA
1984 Mazelow Gallery, Toronto, Canada
1985 International Contemporary Art Fair, London, England
1986 Wykeham Galleries, Stockbridge, England
1987 Touring Exhibition at Washington Gallery, Glasgow; Hendricks
Gallery, Dublin; Smith Galleries, London; and Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh
1987 Main Fine Art, Glasgow, Scotland
1987 Bruton Gallery, Somerset, England
1987 Ayling Porteous Gallery, Chester, England
1987 Richard Demarco Gallery at Bath Arts Festival, Bath, England
1988 Warwick Arts Trust, London, England
1988 Sothebys at Chelsea Arts Club, London, England
1988 Richard Demarco Gallery at Bath Arts Festival, Bath, England
1988 York Contemporary Art Festival, York, England
1988 Main Fine Art, Glasgow, Scotland
1989 The Laing Competition, Manchester and Mall Galleries, London, England
1989 The Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition, London, England
1990 International Contemporary Art Fair, London, England
1990 London Group, Gulbenkian Gallery, Royal College of Art, London, England
1990 'Homage to the Square II', Flaxman Gallery, London, England
1992 'Art for a Fairer World', Glasgow, Cardiff and London, England
1992 'Brushstrokes Across Cultures', Famagusta Gate and HP Gallery, Nicosia, Cyprus
1994 The Whitechapel Open Studios, London, England
1995 Morphi Gallery, Limassol, Cyprus
1998-99Workplace Art, London, England
1999 Dove Everyday Icons Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London, England
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
The Republic Bank of Dallas, USA
The Lawrence County Bank, IL. USA
Wiltshire County Council, UK
Warwick Arts Trust, London, UK
Mitutoyo (UK) Ltd
Tetrapak (UK) Ltd
John Cullen Lighting Co, London, UK
Malpas Simmonds, Blandford Forum, UK
L'Onda Beach Hotel, Limassol, Cyprus
Meridien Hotel, Limassol, Cyprus
Corporate and private collections in the UK, USA, Canada, Cyprus and Hong Kong