Creative Experiences that Empower, Connect and Inspire

I’m Sally Walshe, also known as Lady Mohawk, a Melbourne-based creative producer, artist, and facilitator passionate about building connection through art that is bold, inclusive, and deeply grounded in sustainability.

As a community arts producer, I design and deliver vibrant, participatory art experiences that activate public spaces and engage people of all ages. From large-scale public art projects and festivals to youth-focused exhibitions and council activations, I work with local governments, schools, and organisations to create meaningful moments of creativity, collaboration and community pride.

Recent projects include Penrose RePurposed (Wyndham Council, 2025), RePurpose YOUR Future (Sustainable Living Festival, 2024), Tree of Your Future (Green West Fest, 2024), and the popular Show Your WEST-SIDE Art Prize and Exhibition (2023–2024), which attracted hundreds of artists and attendees across Melbourne’s west.

Alongside producing public events, I maintain a multidisciplinary art practice spanning printmaking, drawing, painting, performance and more! My creative work explores themes of identity, landscape and sustainability, often using sustainable, salvaged or reclaimed materials. I exhibit regularly and also create custom artworks, murals and wearable pieces.

I offer a wide range of creative workshops and events for youth, adults, workplaces and festivals, from printmaking and painting to recycled sculpture, team-building experiences and wellbeing-focused sessions. Whether you’re looking to book a workshop, commission an artwork, or co-create something for your community, I’d love to hear from you!

Let’s make something powerful, beautiful and transformative together.

Artist Biography

Artist | Producer | Facilitator | Creative Instigator

Sally Walshe, also known as Lady Mohawk, is a Canadian-born, Melbourne-based artist, producer, and facilitator whose work straddles the personal, the political, and the sustainable. A multidisciplinary artist, her practice spans printmaking, drawing, painting, installation, performance, and community activation. Her creative voice is bold yet deeply empathetic, and is rooted in lived experience and grounded in social engagement.

After moving to Australia at age five, Sally formally studied a Diploma of Visual Art in 2008. Since then, she has steadily built a career across exhibitions, public art, community projects, and workshops that speak to themes of identity, ecology, and resilience. Her work often blurs boundaries between the imaginary and the autobiographical, with recurring motifs of transformation, regeneration, and connection.

Sally's career includes multiple solo exhibitions—beginning with Black and White Sketches in 2007, through to her most recent 2024 solo show One Last Hug Before I Say Goodbye at Brimbank Gallery. Her work has been recognised in group exhibitions such as Agendo and the Rob McNamara exhibitions (2013), and as a finalist multiple times in the She exhibitions at Walker Street Gallery (2009–2013). She has received numerous accolades, including Second Prize at the Toyota Community Spirit Gallery (2012) and Best Print Award at the Albert Park College Art Show (2011).

In 2022, she founded Lady Mohawk, a creative platform and business offering original artwork, wearable pieces, inclusive workshops, and large-scale community events. Since then, Sally has facilitated repurposed art, printmaking, painting and mixed-media workshops for a wide range of groups, including schools, local councils, businesses and organisations like the Royal Women’s Hospital and its Family Violence Team. Her workshop offerings explore wellbeing, creative expression, and sustainability, with a focus on accessibility and empowerment.

Recent highlights include:

  • 2023: Commissioned murals for Footscray Primary School; solo residency with ARTBox (Maribyrnong City Council); curated the Show Your WEST-SIDE Art Prize and Exhibition featuring over 210 artists and 400+ attendees.
  • 2024: Produced RePurpose YOUR Future Youth Art Workshops and Exhibition (National Sustainable Living Festival, Maribyring City Council); created Tree of Your Future installation for Green Collects' Green West Fest; facilitated several art activations with Brimbank Council; Curated and MC’d the second Show Your WEST-SIDE Art Prize and Exhibition, now featuring 250+ artists and a crowd of over 600 on Opening Night; performed a six-hour durational work Perhaps It’ll Be the Death of Me as part of Sleepless Festival.
  • 2025: Delivered Penrose RePurposed: Sustainable Art Experiences for Wyndham City Council—an immersive public art activation involving community-led installations in Tarneit; completed the Creative Visionary Program, California, USA; co-facilitated The Fabric of Footscray (School of Sewing and Upcycling); and delivered creative wellbeing workshops for organisations including multi-day art intensives with the Royal Women’s Hospital.


At the core of all Sally’s work is a drive to connect—people to each other, to place, and to the stories that shape who we are and what we can become.

View my CV here.

Show Your WESTSIDE Art Prize and Exhibition 2023