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Sabina Sallis

Sabina Sallis works within the areas of video, performance, drawing, installation, photography and sculpture.
Born in 1979 in Lancut, Poland. Lives and works in Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK.
SkypeID: sabina sallis
s.sallis2@ncl.ac.uk
http://www.sabinasallis.com/

Education:

2016-2022   (expected) Newcastle University, School of Fine Art, Practice based PHD
1999-2005    University of Arts, Poznan, Poland. MA in Fine Art (First Honour Degree with Distinction).
1994-1999    College of Fine Art, Jaroslaw, Poland, Diploma in ceramics and painting.

Additional Qualifications:

2019    Yomala Yoga Teacher training, Yoga Therapies, Newcastle upon Tyne
2017    Earth Forum Training, Social Sculpture Research Unit, Oxford Brooks University,
2013-2014    Forest School Teacher Training, level 3, (Advanced skills for Forest School Practitioners)
2010    English Proficiency, Newcastle Collage.
2006    Management of Non-Governmental Organizations.
2004-2005    Art Pedagogy, University of Arts, Poznan, Poland.

Artist in Residencies:

2018   Newcastle Institute for Creative Practice funded research in Japan and Australia,
2018   BeeTime Residency for PhD researchers, Santa Lucia, Spain
2017-   Connect Exchange Residency, Metal Liverpool
2017-   LabVerde, Art Immersion Programme in the Amazon, Brazil
2016- ongoing    Artist in residence at the Graham Bell Permaculture Forest Garden, Coldstream
2014- 2015    Artist in residence at the Scotswood Community Garden, Newcastle upon Tyne.
2014- 2015    Artist in residence at the Abundant Earth Farm, County Durham.  

Selected solo exhibitions:

2021   
Upcoming solo show at Berwick Visual Arts, Berwick upon Tweed, UK
2017-18   
Voynich Series, Customs House Gallery, South Shields, UK
2015   
Source of Resilience, The NewBridge Project Space Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne 
2010   
Resilience in Equailibrium, 36 Lime Street Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne
2007   
Felix Culpa, Arsenal Gallery, Poznan, Poland
2007   
Performizm, Entropia Gallery, Wroclaw, Poland
2007   
Sui Generis, ON Gallery, Poznan, Poland
2006   
Tiger, Tiger Show me Your Shell, Szyperska Gallery Poznan, Poland
2005   
Perfectly Symmetrical Tiger, Inner Spaces Gallery, Poznan
2005   
Painting- Promotion Gallery PKO BP, Poznan, Poland

Selected group exhibitions and various events:

2020-2021   
Sustainable Municipalities / BARBA-T EXPO project- group show, BeeTime Expo Santa Lucia, Vejer, Spain
2019   
Technic and Magic, AGE gathering at Bidston Observatory artistic Research Centre (collaborative workshop and walk centred on compost, herbs and permaculture)
2019   
Rewilding Motherhood daytime Retreat at Dilston Physic Gardens, Colbridge,(creative retreat co lead with Katie I’anson
2019   
Creative Practice Research Forum – Aesthetics of Sustainability and Visionary Scenarios for Sustainable Futures, Newcastle University Institute for Creative Arts Practice, (artist talk)
2019   
Contemporary Art and Rural Development UK-Japan Symposium, Newcastle University, (presenting research and practice)
2019   
How like a Bee. Aesthetics of Sustainability, Explore, Newcastle (artist talks)
2018   
‘Apparatus for Resurgence’, pop up exhibition/experiment, Mile Flores, Santa Lucia, Spain
2018   
‘The Presence of Boundless Potentiality in The Thought World and the Society of Nature’, ONCA Brighton, UK (curating and presenting art installation)
2018   
‘The Thought World and the Society of Nature’ Institute for Humanity and Nature, Kyoto, (pop up video installation)
2017   
‘The Thought World and the Society of Nature’ MFA Summer Show, Newcastle University, (multi-media installation)
2017   
Drawing NE Symposium, South Shields Town Hall (artist talk)
2017   
Creative Practice PhD Symposium, Hospitalfield Scotland (artist talk and pop up exhibition)
2017   
LabVerde seminar at MUSA Manaus Brazil (artist talk- research and artwork presentation)
2017   
The Garden of Resistance, The New Matrix and the Time to Come! Metal, Liverpool (curating and presenting video at the event)
2017   
Moving on Up, Moving on Out, group show by The NewBridge Project artists, The NewBridge Project, Newcastle
2016   
Suncheon Bay International Eco-Environmental Art Festival SEEAF 2016, South Korea
2016   
Doing Nothing is Not an Option, Tipping Point conference, Warwick Art Centre, Coventry, UK
2016   
How the North is making urban sustainability a reality, Science Central Live (talk and presentation of Urban Organizm Art project)
2016   
Transparent, exhibition of works by Konrad Smolenski and Honza Zamojski. (Organising, managing and curating the show)
2015   
Myth, Artisterium, Europe House Georgia and Centre for Contemporary Art Tbilisi, Georgia. Part of Tbilisi's annual International Contemporary Art Exhibition and Art Event.(exhibiting film and video installation with sculptures in a group show and art event)
2015   
Artist Talk, Artiserium, CCA/ Contemporary Art Centre/ Tbilisi, Georgia
2015   
Charrette week, Newcastle University. (presentations of works, talks and workshops with architecture students)
2015   
Do we want to grow up? Exhibition to celebrate 5 years of The NewBridge Project, Newcastle upon Tyne. (organizing, managing and co-curating the show)
2015   
Artist and the Green Consciousness, DIY DIT space, Newcastle upon Tyne (participation in discussion)
2015   
The Scale of Sustainability, a season of films and meetings exploring architecture, homes and community, The Shed Whistle Art Stop, Haltwhistle.(screening my film The Other We)
2015   
Urban Organisms, exhibition and events, art project exploring urban food sustainability, The NewBridge Project, Newcastle. (organizing, managing and co-curating the exhibition and events)
2015   
20th Anniversary Celebration at Scotswood Community Garden, Newcastle upon Tyne (screening my film The Other We)
2014   
Still Life, group exhibition at MOC Gallery Olsztyn, Poland, (exhibiting sculptural light box, film and a sculpture)
2014   
Eulogy, group exhibition at the Vane Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne. (showing a number of framed drawings)
2012   
Subject for Change, group exhibition, Deconstruction Project at Polish Arts Festival, Gallery at Kursall, Southend on Sea, (exhibiting framed drawings, video projection, sculptural objects and wall relief)
2012   
The Observers, The Late Show performance event, The NewBridge Project. Newcastle upon Tyne (participating with performance, organizing, managing and curating the events)
2008   
Inport Performance Video Art Festival, Tallin, Estonia. (participating with video performance)
2007   
Asia- Europe Mediation, Euroasja Nova, performance Festival, CK Zamek, Poznan, Poland. (participating with performance)
2007   
Farewell to Winter / idea generation, BIOS festival, Brzezno, Poland. (participating with performance and video projection)
2006   
Heroines, selected exhibition, BWA Gallery, Leszno, Poland. (exhibiting video projection)
2006   
ON GALLERY, Presentation at Kunstsalon, Berlin, Germany. (exhibiting video projection)
2006   
A warming world needs art, BIOS festival Brzezno, Poland. (participating with performance and video projection)
2006   
COMA, a selected exhibition, Sector 1 Gallery, Katowice, Poland. (participating with video projection)
2005   
U Jezuitow, selected exhibition at the Department of Painting University of Arts in Poznan Gallery ", Poznan, Poland. (participating with video installation)
2005   
ZOON POLITICON, Sabina Scislowicz, Monika Pich, exhibition in the Baltic Gallery of Arts Slupsk, Poland. (exhibiting multimedia installation)
2005   
Exhibition of the Best Masters works, the contest by M.Dokowicz's, The Old Slaughterhouse Gallery, Poznan, Poland. (exhibiting multimedia installation)
2005   
Activebite, Sabina Scislowicz, Monika Pich,  "Dno" Club AFA, Poznan, Poland. (video installation and live action) 
2005   
Nowalijki, Sabina Scislowicz, Monika Pich, Cafe "Miesna", Poznan, Poland. (video installation)
2004   
I desire to die in the flames of love, Sabina Scislowicz, Michal Rajchemba, exhibition in the Gallery Wneka, Poznan, Poland. (exhibiting text and sculptural object)
2003   
Time in the Image, Sabina Scislowicz, Raman Trociuk, exhibition in the BWA Gallery in Wroclaw, Poland. (exhibiting video installation)
2002   
Why Not? Exhibition in Galeria ASP in Katowice, Poland. (exhibiting video installation)
2001   
Izotop 2000, exhibition in the gallery Galeria El in Elblag, Poland. (exhibiting drawings)

Awards, stipends:

2019-2021    Grants for the Arts Scheme for individual artists, Arts Council England.
2017    Artist International Development Fund, Arts Council England
2016    Research Excellence Academy PHD studentship.
2016    Tipping Point Bursary for Doing Nothing is not an Option conference
2014/2015    Grants for the Arts Scheme for individual artists, Arts Council England.
2005/2004    Grant for Arts from the Polish Ministry of Culture.
1999    The Grant for Art from the Polish Prime Minister.
1998/1999    Scholarship awarded by the Polish Ministry of Arts and Culture.

Publications:

2016    Eco-Environmental Art Festival SEEAF 2016, catalogue and guide
2015    Artiserium, international group exhibition, catalogue
2015    Source of resilience, Sabina Sallis, catalogue for a solo show.
2012    Subject for Change, group exhibition catalogue.
2007    Asia-Europe Mediation, Euroasja Nova, festival, exhibition, catalogue
2006    Heroines, group exhibition, catalogue.
2006    Presentation ON Gallery, catalogue, postcards
2006    Coma, exhibition catalogue.
2005    Paintings, Sabina Sallis, solo show, catalogue

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