We are delighted to announce Sally Anderson’s inclusion in TENDER at Ngununggula in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales.
TENDER is an annual exhibition committed to showcasing the work of Australian women artists.
'Tender' within this exhibition refers to the body, our gestures, and the way we feel or express ourselves. We impart the term on places, objects or surfaces to describe how they arouse our senses or how an object yields under pressure; it softens, loses shape, and gives way. This term has rich and varied meanings, and the aim of this exhibition is to explore its significance beyond a gender lens.
Sally Anderson’s work asks how one can hold households, partners, children, paintings, parents, and the self all at once. It reflects the ways motherhood, domesticity, and creative practice become reciprocal and inevitably entangled, each influencing and permeating the other. The work deliberately moves between abstraction and representation, using still-life and landscape motifs as symbols of containment and care.
The exhibition is current at Ngununggula 12 April - 15 June 2025
IMAGE:
SALLY ANDERSON
Self and Still life (shared garden future nurture) 2024
acrylic on polycotton
183 x 165 cm