Sally Crombie

I believe that ‘in a world most mundane, is a world most divine’ - unravelling the ‘ordinary’ and the ‘everyday’ and finding the deeper symbolism, connections and truths is central to how I see the world and what I do through my art. As a printmaker and painter, I have a passion for using a diversity of media - and love to work in a mixture of oil, acrylic, dyes and combine print on the same surface. I have been influenced by many great artists, from William Blake, Edvard Munch and Francisco Goya to Michael Borrëmans and Hendrik Kersten. Surrealism and The Pre-Raphaelites are just two art movements that have inspired me.

I was born in Cambridge and grew up in Canterbury. After my art education I left London to live and work as an artist in Nigeria. During these seven years in Africa, I explored themes of spirituality, cultural meaning and symbolic animalism in my art. Much of my art depicted the deeper layers of meaning in everyday life in a nation embroiled in social, cultural, political and economic change. I created Iwana Arts, an umbrella Arts Company based in Lagos. The company was formed to promote greater cross-cultural awareness through theatre and Fine Arts. I was fortunate to receive numerous commissions from individua...

Canterbury Art College. Foundation in Fine Art & Design 1982-3

Manchester School of Art 1983-7 (1st class honour degree in Fine Art).

Slade School of Fine Art (UCL), London. Postgraduate in Fine Art and Printmaking 1987-9.

Greenwich University. PGCE in Education 2006

International Artists Exhibition. Artwork in Art Nou Millenny Gallery Barcelona. September 2022

Oshun
​Exhibited Oshun themed paintings and prints at Stanfords travel book shop in London's Covent Garden and co - designed book cover for Eye Books launch 'The Oshun Diaries'. August 2019

Gallery 44.
Westcliff on Sea. Group exhibition 2017

​Leigh Arts trail. Featured artist 2016

Group shows
Celia Purcell’s. Church Street, High Street Kensington.
Work regularly exhibited from 2000 – 2015

Art on Paper
Art on Paper Royal College of Art 2003.

Domestic Bliss
Domestic Bliss Group show Middlesex University and
The Museum of Domestic Art and Architecture (MODA) 2002

​Fourplay
Brighton Festival (one of four artists) 1997

The Hilton
Commissioned to produce a series of giant installation banners of African street scenes to hang at The Hilton, Abuja, Nigeria. 1997

Lagos Live
Solo show. Gallery 47, Great Russell Street, London.
Sponsors: British Airways 1996.

British Artists in Nigeria
Solo British Council touring exhibition 1996.

Wonder Wonder
Solo show. Jazz 38 Lagos. Exhibition opened by Ex Head of State Olusegun Obasanjo 1995.

​Rainy Season Blues
Solo show. The Lagos Gallery.
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