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Sara Retallick

Winter–Spring (2022) Brand Reel

Sara Retallick is an artist, musician and educator living and working on Wurundjeri Country in Naarm (Melbourne). Her work explores listening and human perceptions of sound through constructed sonic encounters. Her current projects investigate listening underwater to expand sonic contexts and to push the physical limits of listening and understandings of sound.

Sara has exhibited internationally at Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid, Sapin (2020) and at I.S.E.A. in Durban, South Africa (2018). Nationally, Sara has presented installations at RISING Festival (2021), BLINDESIDE (2019), UNSW Gallery (2019), and Bus Projects (2017). She was awarded the Freedman Foundation Travelling Scholarship (2017), and her work has been supported by Creative Victoria, NAVA, The City of Melbourne and RMIT University.

Sara Retallick - image credit Elliot Oakes

Image credit: Elliot Oakes

She has attended multiple artist residencies, most recently Eco-Acoustics with Annea Lockwood/Leah Barclay at CAMP France (2019), and Sonic Mmabolela with Francisco Lopez/Barbara Ellison in South Africa (2018).

Golden Syrup – Sara’s live and recorded music project – debuted at the MONA’s annual winter festival Dark MOFO in 2016 with the debut album being released through Nice Music Label in February 2018. The evolving nature of Golden Syrup allows Sara the freedom to experiment, offering audiences a genre-crossing project that spans soundscape, noise, sound collage, pop music and improvisation.