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Sally Smart is an artist located in Victoria and was born in 1960, Quorn, SA.
Sally utilises collage, screen-printing, drawing and photography throughout her artwork and photography. She illustrates theatrical installations that employ a cinematic visual style. She is known for her large-scale installations.

Sally Smart graduated from the South Aus. School of art during 1981; she then completed postgraduate studies at the Victorian College of the Arts in 1988, followed by a Master of Fine Arts in 1991.
Sally’s installations explore corporeality, gender and identity politic.

Sally uses an array of different mediums throughout her works while most artists generally use one or two (this makes her work unique). While creating het artwork,

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