Sally Brown is a designer/maker and craft artist. She makes furniture, functional objects and sculpture using predominately, textiles, metal and salvaged materials.
She completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts with First Class Honours majoring in Furniture Design at the University of Tasmania’s School of Art in Hobart in 2004. It was here that she developed an interest in the potential for using textiles and its techniques in the development of furniture.
Brown places emphasis on the handmade in her work and allows process to influence the development of the work beyond its initial design concept. Her interest in textiles informs the selection of materials, processes and construction of her work, while observation of Tasmania’s natural environment influences the forms, patterns and colours she employs. Her stated aim as an artist and designer is to create objects that are both functional and sculptural.
In 2008 Brown was included among thirty emerging designers in Australian Design Review, and since graduation she has exhibited in various group and solo shows in Tasmania.
