Sally Burley is an emerging South Australian artist who spends her time living and painting across her two favorite locations in South Australia.
Amongst the beautiful and ever-changing vines of Barossa’s high country in the north, and the glistening diamond waters and soft white sand of Aldinga Beach, in the south.

Formally trained in life drawing at the Adelaide Central School of Art, Sally’s work speaks of her pull towards the strong force of the abstract in brushwork and colour, and the desire to take the viewer back to realism in form. An ever-opposing battle between full freedom in large format movement, and restraint through detail.

This body of work, Sallys first formal exhibit as an emerging artist, was created over 2024 / 2025. Inspired by the hue of changing seasons in the Barossa, this work is a flurry of abstract colour, light, and shade - bringing together a lifelong passion for the abstract, influenced by her long-ago formal training.