Sandy Sigala is a research-led artist that currently lives and works in Glasgow. Her work explores identity, desire, oral histories, gender, ritual, satire, playthings, contemporary archaeology, waste lands and assemblage. S finds inspiration in mundane everyday life occurrences, experimental film, subcultures, found objects, the occult, urban noise, literary fiction, irony, paradox, queer approaches, puns, plants, artefacts, the historic avant-garde, writing lists, humid summer evenings and lust. She works across different mediums, enjoys experimenting with materials and employs humour and wit as tools to question and reflect on stuff.

Education

PhD Fine Art- Edinburgh College of Art, the University of Edinburgh and The Glasgow School of Art(2021-ongoing)

MLitt Fine Art Practice- The Glasgow School of Art- (2017)

BA (Hons) Photography and Film- Edinburgh Napier University- (2015)

Commemorative Diploma in Art Therapy, Dance and Film- Ash in Arts- Athens, Greece (2010)

Photography Graduate- IEK AKMH College- Athens, Greece (2009)

Rosedale Heights School Of The Arts- Toronto, Canada (2005)

Member of: Sculpture Placement Group, Glasgow Sculpture Studios & Transmission Gallery

Co-founder of: Eye Am Camera collective (2015-2017)

Awards / Grants

• NEON PhD Scholarship (2021 - 2022)
• Visual Artist and Craft Makers Award | Creative Scotland & Glasgow Life (2021)
• Hope Scott Trust Grant (2019)
• The Eaton Fund Grant (2019)
• Schilizzi Foundation Award (2014-2015)

Solo Shows

• Unbind- Fringe Festival- Edinburgh, Scotland (2015)
• Unbind- Summerhall- Edinburgh, Scotland (2015)

Collaborations

• Future Relics (collaboration with writer/curator Fiona Allan & artist Christine Novosel)- 16 Nicholson Street Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland (2019)
• BLTDSM (collaboration with artists Jack Low & Christine Novosel)-Annuale Art Festival- Leith Walk Police Box, Edinburgh, Scotland (2018)

Selected Group Shows

• 195th RSA Annual Exhibition- The Royal Scottish Academy of Art and Architecture, Scotland (2021)
• Life on Venus |||The Organic- The Tub Hackney & The Auction Collective- London, England (2021) 
• Life on Venus |The Landscape- The Tub Hackney & The Auction Collective- London, England (2020) 
• Heavy Duty- Transmission Gallery- Glasgow, Scotland (2019)
• Little Islands Festival Video & Sound Art (LIF)- Sikinos Island, Greece (2018)
• Home of Multiple Occupancy (HoMO)- Transmission Gallery- Glasgow, Scotland (2018)
• GY Open House Arts Festival- Glasgow, Scotland (2018)
• Centre for Unsuccessful Submissions_Act I- Coburg House Art Studios- Edinburgh, Scotland (2018)
• Drifting Corridors- The Old Hairdresser's- Glasgow, Scotland (2017)
• Fields of Wheat- Transmission Gallery- Glasgow Scotland (2017)
• Glasgow School of Art Postgraduate Degree Show- Tontine Building- Glasgow, Scotland (2017)
• 1st Helensburgh Art Festival- Victoria Halls- Helensburgh, Scotland (2017)
• Permanent Vacation- The Old Hairdresser's - Glasgow, Scotland (2017)
• Pub(i)c- The Old Hairdresser's - Glasgow, Scotland (2017)
• Deltiology II- Leith Depot - Edinburgh, Scotland (2017)
• Deltiology- Six Foot Gallery - Glasgow, Scotland (2016)
• Fringes- Fine Roots Gallery - Edinburgh, Scotland (2016)
• Wish You Where Were?- Leith Late Festival - Edinburgh, Scotland (2016)
• BYOB (Bring Your Own Beamer)- St. Margaret's House- Edinburgh, Scotland (2016)
• All of This and Nothing- Woodland Creatures- Edinburgh, Scotland (2015)
• Kennardphillipps 'Here Comes Everybody' (collaborative collage exhibition)- Stills Gallery- Edinburgh, Scotland (2015)
• Free Range - Old Truman Brewery- London, England (2015)
• Plastic Camera Show- Rayko PhotoCentre- San Francisco, U.S.A (2014)
• Africa In Motion Film Festival- Stills Gallery- Edinburgh, Scotland (2013)
• Africa In Motion Film Festival- CCA- Glasgow, Scotland (2013)

Residencies / Mentorships 

• Artist/Researcher in residence- Glasgow Seed Library and CCA Glasgow (2023)
• Mentor for CCA Artist Mentorship Programme- CCA Derry~Londonderry, Northern Ireland (2021)
• Raizvanguarda artist residency programme- Casa do Artista- Gois, Portugal (2015) 

 Symposia / Workshops 

• Ms. Behave sound workshop with Natalie McGhee of Comfort at 16 Nicholson Street Gallery- Glasgow, Scotland (2019)
• Tarkovsky: Cinema and Dreams Symposium- Summerhall- Edinburgh, Scotland (2018)

Interviews / Publications 

• Quarantzine-01- Art zine made in self-isolation during the Covid 19 pandemic - Online (2020) 
• Letters to Barnacle - Glasgow Zine Fest- Scotland (2016)
• Poor Art* (2015): https://medium.com/poor-art/all-of-this-and-nothing-a26dffb050a
• Poor Art* (2015): https://medium.com/poor-art/avant-garde-anthropological-films-from-s-21e19cd0df36

Work Experience

• Chef de partie- Saramago in CCA Glasgow (2019- ongoing) 
• Administrative Support- SolidarityNow Finance Department- Athens, Greece (2020)
• Teaching Assistant- Highland Centre- Ha Giang, Vietnam (2019)
• MiniMarket co-organizer- Pop-up maker's market held monthly at The Old Hairdresser's- Glasgow, Scotland (2018-2019)
  
• 1st Year Fine Art Photography Tutor- Glasgow School of Art (2017)
• Art Director- Fine Roots Gallery- Edinburgh, Scotland (2016)
• Programming Assistant - Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival- Hawick, Scotland (2015-2016)
• Art Director - Woodland Creatures- Edinburgh, Scotland (2013-2016)
• Director and Producer of Motion Creatures film screening events; in association with BARK Productions- Fringe Festival- Edinburgh, Scotland (2015)
• Curatorial Assistant- Jupiter Artland- Wilkieston, Scotland (2015)