Sally Bailey is an artist, writer and researcher living in the West Midlands. She successfully completed her practice-led PhD at the Birmingham School of Art, BCU, in November 2021. Her thesis - Locating a Space of Exchange: re-imagining the liminal in contemporary painting practice - reframes the liminal as a conceptual space between painter and painting, process and outcome; examining how the painter can exploit the potentiality of this transformative space to develop experimental practice and push forward current thinking.

“I am a painter. My own painting practice acknowledges the traditions and past histories of painting, but it is not bound by a formal approach. I use my painting as a language to express the things I cannot speak of – of suspended moments between past and present, self and other, being and not-being. My works are created and exist within a liminal space.”