Sandra Selig
Born 1972 Seven Hills, New South Wales. Currently lives and works in Brisbane, Queensland
Education
1997-99
Master of Arts (Research) Visual Arts, Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane
1992-95
Bachelor of Arts (Visual Arts) with Honours, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2018
Modulated Object and Assisted Drawing, Milani Gallery, Brisbane
2016
pattern ghost, Boxcopy, Brisbane
outsides, Milani Gallery, Brisbane
2014
interleaves, Milani Gallery, Brisbane
2013
sleeping rainbow (interleaves), Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney
2012
light gets in, Milani Gallery, Brisbane
enough, Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney
2011
be some other material, Artspace, Sydney
2010
lucid in the art of the unlikely, Milani Gallery, Brisbane
2009
waves depend on us (light from Tokyo), Milani Gallery, Brisbane
2008
invisible surround, Milani Gallery, Brisbane
2007
surface of change, Bellas Milani Gallery, Brisbane
2006
ground, Bellas Milani Gallery, Brisbane
circuit (installation), Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
2004
Light from elsewhere, The Gallery, Guernsey, United Kingdom
2003
span (installation), Museum of Brisbane, Brisbane
Selected Group Exhibitions
2019
The National: New Australian Art, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
New Woman, Museum of Brisbane, Brisbane
Sunshine Coast Art Prize, Caloundra Regional Gallery, Caloundra, Queensland
2018
Obsession: Devil in the detail, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Mornington, VIC
Trace, Bunjil Place, Narre Warren, VIC
2016
Sugar Spin: You, me, art and everything, Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane
Gravity (And Wonder), Penrith Regional Gallery, NSW
Another Green World, Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney
2015
Kaleidoscopic Turn, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Luminous, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Writing Art, Artspace, Sydney
2014
Framed Movements, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
Notes from the Field, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne
2012
Contemporary Australia: Women, Gallery of Modern Art | Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
ExPost Triennial, Queensland University of Technology Art Museum, Brisbane
Gold Coast Art Prize, The Gold Coast Arts Centre, Gold Coast
Build Me a City, Australian Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide
Sonic Spheres, Tarrawarra Museum of Art, Victoria
2011
Ten Years of Contemporary Art: The James C Sourris AM Collection, GOMA, Brisbane
Cells and silos, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne
2010
Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Before and after science, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide (with Leighton Craig)
Freehand: Recent Australian Drawing, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne
Zen to Kawaii: The Japanese Affect, Queensland University of Technology Art Museum, Brisbane
2009
Avoiding myth & message: Australian artists and the literary world, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
2008
In the space of elsewhere, Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston University, London
New08, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Handle with care, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
2006
Paper, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Perth
POW (Personal Other World), Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Canberra
Prime, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
2005
Primavera, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Temperature, Museum of Brisbane, Brisbane
2003
Paper cuts, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne
Commissions
2014
Echo Orbit, powder-coated aluminum and steel cable. Shade canopies, Brunswick St Mall, Brisbane. Brisbane City Council.
2012
Cloud Wall, 12 x 1.5 x 6 m, steel and glass, internal/external sculptural wall. One One One Eagle Street, Brisbane. Cox Rayner Architects, Constructed by Arden.
2011
Electron Screen, 23 x 4.5 m, laser cut, powder coated aluminum, external. Corner McLachlan St and James Street, Brisbane. George Group, Constructed by McLay Industries.
2008
Continuum, 80 x 1.5 m suspended. Powder coated aluminum, colour filtered led light, Brisbane International Airport, Bligh Voller Nield, Constructed by Albert Smith Signs
2004
Slowness of Light interior glass/light sculpture and wall relief (3 x 3 m, 7 x 3 x 3 m variable)
Saville Hotel, Brisbane. Stocklands, Fairweather Proberts Architects, Urban Art Projects
Stray Lines, tensioned PTFE, thread, piano tuning pegs, 3 separate works across 3 internal window voids (3 x 6 x 12 m each) Brisbane Magistrates Court. JAG, QLD Government Art Built-In, Cox Rayner Architects.
Dividing, exterior concrete screen, (12 x 6 m) Galleria Apartments, Brisbane. Fairweather Proberts Architects, Honeycombes, Urban Art Projects.
Residencies
2008
Australia Council Studio, Overseas Studio Residency, Tokyo, Japan (awarded 2006)
2004
International Artist in Residence Program, Guernsey College of Further Education, Art and Design, St Peter Port, Guernesy, UK
Collections
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Museum of Old and New Art, Hobart
Monash University, Melbourne
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane
Queensland University of Technology Art Museum, Brisbane
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane