00:00So Sally, you're only 22 years old, so how does it feel to be making the shortlist for these
00:05Procedures Awards so early in your career?
00:08Really unbelievable. I didn't think anything like that would ever happen to me.
00:12So I can't believe it's already happening just after graduating uni.
00:16And for those of us who aren't familiar at home, I had to research them when I was putting this together,
00:21but tell us about these prizes and what they're for.
00:24So the Women in Art Prize is basically to try and promote UK and international women's artists,
00:35both emerging and non-emerging.
00:39And they do a yearly award every year to just try and get people's names out there.
00:45And the Peugeot one, it's sponsored by Peugeot,
00:50and to try and, again, give people the opportunity to have their work in the Saatchi Gallery.
00:58And we can see some of your work here.
01:00So these are the ones in the Saatchi Gallery, is that right?
01:03Can you just speak us through them there? I've never seen work like that.
01:06So the two that are in the Saatchi Gallery are the two collages.
01:09I made them for a project called Nine Limes, which was my major project at uni.
01:16And they're just basically about the passing of my grandma, who died in November of 2024.
01:22So I made them as kind of a form of art therapy to try and help me through that grief.
01:27And they took all, there's 10 collages in total,
01:31and altogether they took about 30 hours to make.
01:34So, yeah.
01:35Wow.
01:36So long, so with these, like, these, are they different photos that you've, like, merged?
01:40Did you do that by hand or, like, digitally?
01:42Yeah, by hand.
01:43Wow.
01:43So that one, the original photos are about that big.
01:48And I basically just scanned it and then printed it out and chopped it up into segments
01:53and then hand-weaved it myself.
01:56Wow.
01:56I would never have thought to do that.
01:58Is that something that, is this the first time you've done that kind of thing?
02:01Or is it something you've kind of honed at uni?
02:03Um, I've never done the weaving before.
02:06I've done another project that involved kind of mixing up photos,
02:11but I've never done anything like that before.
02:13So I really enjoyed doing that.
02:15Oh, was there, like, a ceremony that you got to go to?
02:17Yeah, I got to go to a fancy ceremony.
02:19There was a fancy hotel and then it went into, for the Saatchi one,
02:24we then, it was announced at the Saatchi gallery in the evening.
02:27So that was quite exciting.
02:28And I got to meet all the other artists and the same thing happened for the Women in Art Prize.
02:33It happened at the British Library, like a whole award ceremony.
02:37So that was exciting because I'd never done anything like that before.
02:39Yeah, lots of good fun, I bet.
02:41And, of course, this is, you're only 22.
02:44I imagine you've got a big career in front of you.
02:46What are you kind of hoping to do next in your photography work?
02:50Well, the next aim is to try and get a job in the industry.
02:53It's quite hard at the moment because there's not a lot of jobs out there.
02:55So I'm hoping to try and get a job in archives or curation.
02:59So that's kind of the dream.
03:01And then apart from that, I'm going to work on some other projects alongside that.
03:05I'm going to work on some other projects.
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