— Biography of Sadie Chandler

Sadie Chandler is a Melbourne based artist whose studio practice involves painting, drawing, sculpture and wallpaper.  Her work is both abstract and representational – and always has a quirky, intriguing edge.

Since 2006, Chandler's wallpaper series have become a core aspect of her work.  Each installation consists of thousands of original drawings which the artist pastes onto the wall by hand.  In 2007 North Café in Carlton commissioned a permanent installation of her North Wallpaper series, and in 2017 the artist installed The Weight of Images at ACCA as part of their exhibition Unfinished Business: Perspectives on art and feminism.

Chandler completed a Bachelor of Fine Art at the Phillip Institute of Technology (now RMIT University) in 1986, a Graduate Diploma in Fine Art at the Victorian College of the Arts in 1990 and a Masters of Visual Arts at the Sydney College of the Arts in 1996.

Visit the Artist’s website: www.sadiechandler.com

Sadie Chandler CV

Andrew Frost, Sadie Chandler: Paperworks, Blindside, 2016

Austral Avenue: An experiment in living with art, Edited by Jane ONeill, Emblem Books, 2012

Barbara Creed, The Aberrant Object: Women Dada and Surrealism, Art Monthly Australia, May 1994, p. 10

Bruce James, One Colour Suits All, Sydney Morning Herald, August 14, 1999

Bruce James, One too many rivals, Sydney Morning Herald, February 28, 2005, p. 16

Sadie Chandler, Paintings: 1999 - 2001, 2001