Biographies > Sally Moorhouse

Sally Moorhouse originally was interested in the art of figure and landscape in watercolour and pastel; but then she became drawn to mixed media and collage (Marston in the TAG collection). She said that from childhood she lived among artists, writers, teachers and musicians. Galleries, museum, art history books, myths and fairy tales were an important part of her life then. In her collages she has deconstructed and constructed, analyzed and synthesized these memories and perceptions.

Sally was born and grew up in New York City in 1930. She studied art with Bernadine Custer at the Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, Skidmore College and the Art Students’ League in NYC. She moved to Sault Ste. Marie where she continued studying art part-time at Algoma University College and via workshops with various artists. She also ran a studio/ gallery, taught art and was education officer at the Art Gallery of Algoma for several years. She was also President of the Algoma Art Society (84-85). Sally won several awards including the Kelly-McKay award for the NOAA juried Colour Show. She exhibited in a number of exhibitions early on in Connecticut and later with NOAA and the Art Gallery of Algoma. She produced the inaugural catalogue, Painters of the Shield for the Art Gallery of Algoma in 1980.