​​​Sally Swan is a Melbourne-born still life oil painter. In 2024, she completed a Diploma of Visual Arts at NCAT and now works from Mycelium Studios in East Brunswick. Through her paintings, Sally explores the late 20th-century pop culture that shaped Generation X, depicting beloved icons of the era now found gathering dust in op shops. Her work offers a quiet meditation on memory, history and our enduring ties to the past that shaped us. 

 

My long time love of oil paint and Still Life anchors my art practice. With never quite enough time, painting becomes my meditation — stretching and priming the linen, staining the wood by hand — these tactile acts connect me deeply to each work before the first brushstroke is made.

 

My paintings emerge from both observation and imagination, shaped by sketches, photographs, and quiet contemplation of the ordinary and everyday.

 

Community sits at the heart of my practice with my fellow artists at The Thursday Collective and Mycelium Studios being key to my growth, offering energy, generosity, and encouragement. For the passerby who pauses to look, I hope my work offers a small moment of reflection, a forgotten memory, or an opportunity to connect with a long-lost joy.

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Contact details for purchase enquires

​https://www.artworkarchive.com/profile/sally_swan_art 

sal99swan@yahoo.com.au

@sally.swan.art