Lyndi Sales

Born in 1973, Lyndi Sales, had her first solo Bell-Roberts exhibition, 1 In 11,000,000 Chances, in 2006. Sales trained as a printmaker at the Michaleis School of Fine Art, UCT, where she received a Masters of Fine Arts with distinction in 2000. She is one of South Africa's most respected young artists, and has exhibited extensively both locally and abroad. Frequently included in the ABSA L'Atelier Art Competition, Sales has three times been selected as a top-ten finalist, and in 2007 she received an ABSA L'Atelier Art Competition Merit Award. A master engraver, Lyndi Sales has worked widely with various aspects of paper, which has led her to expand into mixed media and found objects. Since 2001 Sales has also been making artists' books that are included in the holdings of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, Library of Congress in Washington, The New York Public Library, and the Arthur Mata and Jaffe Collection at Florida Atlantic University. In 2007 Sales worked in handmade paper at New York's noted paper-mill, Dieu Donné. This was followed by a residency at the Vermont Studio Centre. Selected to participate in the 2008 Holland Paper Biennale, Sales has also received a Frans Masareel printmaking residency in Belgium for June 2008. In her recent work Sales has applied the printmaker's concept of incising copper or wood to incising with a laser on paper, textiles, and other materials. This approach has resulted in a unique and idiosyncratic body of work, much of which has been included in TRANSIenT, Sales' second solo Bell-Roberts exhibition of February, 2008.