Gayle Sachs

I'm a Melbourne based abstract artist. I studied at the University of Cape Town (Fine Art, History of Art) and later at the Arts Students League in NYC with the political activist / artist, Rudolf Baranik.

Since setting in Australia in 1997, I've exhibited in Melbourne, Sydney and South Australia. My work is housed in private collections in Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide, London, New York, New Jersey, Houston and Minneapolis.

I use materials as disparate as oil, plaster, collage, pastel, sand and pencil. Alternating techniques (collage, decollage, electric sanding, painting) result in a complex exchange of the revealed and the hidden. Material and experience are equally woven and unravelled to build a reframed reality.

1991 – 1994: Art Students League, New York | Tuition with political artist and abstract expressionist Rudolf Baranik
1987 – 1990: Michael Pettit Studio, Cape Town | Tuition and artist’s apprentice
1988: B.A., University of Cape Town | Major in History of Art (distinction)
1986: B.A.F.A., University of Cape Town

2013: Hotham Street Contemporary
2006- 2013: Private sales
2005: Ochre Gallery, Melbourne
2003 - 2005: Affordable Art show, Sydney, Melbourne
2004: Suburban 312, Melbourne
2003: Gallery 482, Fortitude Valley
2003: Art Images, Adelaide
2003 - 2005: Interior Art Australia, Melbourne
2003: Horizon Art Gallery, Melbourne
2002: Stuart Adamson Interiors, Melbourne
1998 - 2002: Group exhibitions, Sydney