Sandy Sigala is an interdisciplinary 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 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 (2021-ongoing)

MLitt Fine Art Practice- 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: 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)

Mentorships / Residencies

• 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)