Deborah Sleeman

Deborah Sleeman completed an Advanced Diploma of Applied and Visual Arts in 2001 and a Bachelor of Applied Design and Visual Art at ACA, Adelaide in 2006. Over the past ten years she has participated in solo and group exhibitions throughout Australia. Sleeman was a finalist in Sculpture by the Sea, 2003 and was short listed for the SAYAB Artists as Educators Award in 2005, which she went on to win in 2007. She was also a recipient of the 3D Art Award at the Penneshaw Easter Art Exhibition in 2006. She has received several public commissions for her artworks nationally. Deborah Sleeman's work is part of numerous important public and private collections throughout Australia.

"The works are elemental, products of the wind, sky and sea laden environments in which they are made. They seek to articulate the intangible connections between the human and natural worlds, between the animate and inanimate." Deborah Sleeman