Home
“impressive for it’s confidence and spontaneity…exquisitely efficient”
Judges panel Glebe Art Show September 2011
“The raw emotional quality of the work impresses”
Artspace Magazine Winter Issue 2010
“a celebration of women”
Leamington Courier 9 July 2010
“Startling work… painted with dash and vigour”
New Zealand Herald 7 March 2009
“…visually magnetic and intellectually compelling”
Gallery Director Satellite Gallery January 2009
“far from conventional portraits”
New Zealand Listener March 22 2008
“…challenging and unique”
Ponsonby News May Issue 2008
Sal Higgens lives and works in Sydney Australia. She is a British Expatriate artist and one time New Zealander who, after blossoming as an emerging artist in New Zealand, has returned to the South Pacific to settle in Australia. Sally returns from an eighteen month sabbatical in the UK. Travelling the old country and throughout Europe, she spent time gathering ideas and inspiration from the rich history of myths and legend that is her heritage. During these months Sal exhibited across Warwickshire including at the prestigious Compton Verney Museum and Art Gallery.
From her studio on William Street Sydney, Sally is working on a new body of work for exhibition at Salerno Gallery, Sydney from 22 October 2012. She is also excited and proud to announce she will be showing her powerful “Mourning Chorus” exhibition as her debut solo show in Australia, at Sheffer Gallery from 25th June 2012.
Sal Higgens is a 2012 finalist in the “She Who Can” competition at The Walker Street Art Gallery, Melbourne.
Sally Higgens harks from the wilds of Wandsworth in South London. She was born and raised south of the river and has been a painter in South London for over a decade. She studied life drawing at Riversley School of Fine Arts in Chelsea and then a foundation course at Wimbledon School of Art where Sally specialised in Fine Arts, Sculpture and Painting. She was a painter in Brighton for four years then, after graduating from Brighton University Art School in 2003 she embarked on her career as an International Fine Art Painter in London. She has exhibited at galleries in London, Amsterdam, Brighton, Auckland and across New Zealand. Sal has produced several large scale commissioned artworks. These include commissions for Wimbledon Cannizaro Park Open Air Theatre, Quinton Scott Estate Agents in their Kingston and Wimbledon branches and Epsom Playhouse Foyer boasts four large paintings by Sal.
Sally Higgens is an award winning painter who has been a finalist in the New Zealand National Portrait Award, Waikato Society of Arts Award and Molly Morpeth Canaday Award amongst others. She won the Inaugural Empire National Youth Art Award in 2008. She is recognised for the strength of her drawing, evident in the confidence and emotion of her line.
