Artist Member
Seedling
Cyanotype
5 x 5”, folded – 41 x 14”, open
Apple Saint
Toned cyanotype
Folded – 6 x 6”, folded – 30 x 8″, open
Cactus Book
Cyanotype
8 x 7”, closed – 21 x 8 x 5”, open
Sally Chapman 
www.sallychapmanphoto.com/
Instagram – @sallychapmannow
BIO
Sally Chapman is a photographer living in Lowell, MA. After earning a BFA in ceramics and photography from Michigan State University, she worked for over twenty years as a ceramic artist exhibiting widely. When she returned to photography ten years ago, she was inspired by what appeared in the dark and worked in night photography. Eventually she gravitated towards the traditional methods of printing. In her current work, she uses the 19th century photographic process of cyanotype. Her most current work is returning to working in three dimensions through the medium of the book arts.
She has been published in The Hand magazine and has had solo shows at the Soho Photo Gallery, New York, NY; Three Stones Gallery, Concord, MA; MIT Rotch Architectural Library, Cambridge, MA; Gallery 93, Brookline, MA; The Sanctuary in Medford, MA; and the Arts League of Lowell, Lowell, MA. She won the Directors Award from A Smith Gallery, Honorable Mention in the 18th Julia Margaret Cameron Awards, and Excellence in Photography Award at the Rockport Art Association and Museum National Show. She has been included in many group shows including at the Griffin Museum, Winchester, MA; Image Flow Gallery, Mill Valley, CA; Soho Photo Gallery, New York, NY; Art Intersection, Gilbert, AZ; Light Space, Silver City, NM; Photo Place Gallery, Middlebury, VT; and the Danforth Museum, Framingham, MA.
In addition to her BFA in ceramics and photography from Michigan State University, Chapman has studied photography in workshops offered by the New England School of Photography, Griffin Museum, MIT, and Harvard University.
ARTIST’S STATEMENT
My early artistic career was in ceramics and I have a strong connection to working in three dimensions and as well as an urge to have my hand in touch with the medium. As my work in photography has evolved from working digitally, I discovered older handmade photographic techniques such as cyanotype. Following this urge to have my hand more involved, I began drawing on those pieces with pastels. As that evolution continued, the desire to return to three-dimensional work arose. I became interested in artist books as sculptural pieces that emerge as the piece is unfolded or opened. Being a photographer, I am using my work in cyanotype as well as digitally printed imagery to create sculptural work using folding and cutting techniques. Some of the pieces are defined by the imagery that I intend to use 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. I love seeing the movement of the forms as the pieces unfold or open and a story is revealed.