Sally Chapman Photo Art

Sally Chapman is a photographer and book artist living in Lowell, MA. Her early artistic career of was in ceramics and she has a strong connection to working in three dimensions as well as to having her hand in touch with the medium. As her work in photography evolved, she discovered older handmade photographic techniques such as cyanotype. Eventually, she began drawing on those pieces with pastels to add more color and contrast to the photo. In time the desire to return to three-dimensional work arose. She became interested in artist books as sculptural pieces that emerge as the piece is unfolded or opened. Being a photographer, she is using her work in cyanotype as well as digital imagery to create sculptural work using folding and cutting techniques. Some of the pieces are defined by the imagery and the shape evolves from that idea. Other pieces may start with a given shape such as a wooden block or a cigar box, and the imagery evolves to that shape. She loves seeing the movement of the forms as the pieces unfold or open and a story is revealed.

Her books are in collections at the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD), Denver University Library and the Topeka Shawnee County Public Library.

She has exhibited her books with Rochester Library in Rochester, NY; 23 Sandy in Puget Sound, WA; Abecedarian in Denver, CO; Decatur Arts Alliance in Decatur, GA; and the New England Book Artists, as well as in many photography venues.

Awards:

Art of the Book & Paper, Rochester, NY, First Place Paper Sculpture

Griffin Museum 30th Annual Juried Members Show, MA, Honorable Mention

Soho Photo Gallery National Competition 2023, NY, Honorable Mention

Texas Photographic Society, By Hand: Alternative Processes, TX, Honorable Mention

The Halide Project, Living Image, PA, Grand Prize Winner

A Smith Gallery, TX, Directors Award