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