Soft Paw on my Fire Brain - Sally Hackett

May 7th 2021 -June 5th 2021

‘Soft paw on my fire brain’ is an exhibition inspired by the time I phoned my mum crying and she dropped off her dog for me to look after. Looking at the silent nurture humans receive from animals in times of emotional distress, a series of ceramic sculptures showing bleary emotional states will sit in the gallery. Intimate catastrophes of the brain, extinguished with a fluffy paw.

Sally Hackett

Sally Hackett is an artist and educator living and working in Glasgow. Sally makes sculpture with a range of materials of widely different shelf lives and sell by dates from glazed ceramics to peanuts, garlic husks and toilet rolls. Spurred by intuitive making, her work is predominantly centred around emotion and mental states. Characters appear showing stories of social intricacies, heartbreak and human failure but with a playful aesthetic of bright colours and cartoon faces. Her work aims to simultaneously express both joy and pain. Sally’s interest in pedagogy often sees her working directly with community groups and children to create works collaboratively or facilitate others in their act of creating. Recent exhibitions include ‘A toilet is a wishing well’ Generator Projects (2020) ‘A Weakness for Raisins’ CCA, Glasgow (2018) ‘From Glasgow Women’s Library’ (2018) and ‘The Fountain of Youth’, Edinburgh Art Festival (2016)