Creative Experiences that Empower, Connect and Inspire
I’m Sally Walshe, also known as Lady Mohawk, a Melbourne-based artist, creative producer and facilitator creating bold, inclusive and sustainability-focused art experiences that bring people together through creativity, connection and place.
Working across community arts, public art, exhibitions and creative facilitation, I design and deliver participatory projects for festivals, councils, libraries, schools, hospitals and community organisations throughout Melbourne and beyond. My work combines artistic practice with meaningful community engagement, transforming public spaces into vibrant places of creativity, storytelling and belonging.
Recent projects include the New Footscray Hospital Photography Competition (2025–2026), Penrose RePurposed (Wyndham City Council, 2025), RePurpose YOUR Future (Sustainable Living Festival, 2024), Tree of the Future (Green West Fest, 2024), and the popular Show Your WESTSIDE Art Prize & Exhibition (2023–2024), which attracted hundreds of artists and attendees from across Melbourne’s west.
Alongside my public and community work, I maintain a multidisciplinary art practice spanning printmaking, painting, installation, textiles, sculpture and reclaimed materials. My work explores themes of identity, memory, landscape and sustainability, often incorporating salvaged and repurposed elements to create layered, tactile and expressive works.
I also facilitate creative workshops and experiences for festivals, workplaces, schools and community groups, with a focus on accessibility, wellbeing, collaboration and creative confidence.
Whether you’re looking to commission artwork, develop a community activation, deliver a creative workshop or collaborate on a public project, I’d love to hear from you.
Artist Biography
Artist | Creative Producer | Facilitator | Community Art Practitioner
Sally Walshe, also known as Lady Mohawk, is a Canadian-born, Melbourne-based multidisciplinary artist, creative producer and facilitator whose work explores connection, sustainability, identity and place through both personal practice and community engagement. Working across printmaking, painting, installation, performance and participatory arts, her practice moves fluidly between gallery spaces, public environments and collaborative community settings.
After moving to Australia at age five, Sally completed a Diploma of Visual Art in 2008 and has since built a multifaceted creative career spanning exhibitions, public art, festivals, workshops and large-scale community activations. Her work often explores themes of transformation, memory, resilience and belonging, frequently incorporating reclaimed and repurposed materials.
Sally’s exhibition history includes multiple solo exhibitions, from Black and White (2007) to her 2024 solo exhibition One Last Hug Before I Say Goodbye at Brimbank Gallery. Her work has featured in numerous group exhibitions and prizes including Agendo, the Rob McNamara Exhibitions, and multiple finalist exhibitions in the SHE exhibitions at Walker Street Gallery between 2009 and 2013.
In 2022, she founded Lady Mohawk, a creative platform combining original artwork, public art, workshops and community cultural projects. Since then, Sally has collaborated with councils, festivals, schools, libraries, hospitals and organisations to create inclusive, sustainability-focused creative experiences that foster participation, wellbeing and connection.
Recent highlights include founding and curating the Show Your WESTSIDE Art Prize & Exhibition (2023–2024), producing RePurpose YOUR Future for the National Sustainable Living Festival, delivering Penrose RePurposed for Wyndham City Council, co-facilitating The Fabric of Footscray, and coordinating the New Footscray Hospital Photography Competition & Exhibition (2025-2026) in partnership with Western Health, Plenary Health, VHBA and Footscray Community Arts.
Alongside her community practice, Sally continues to exhibit, facilitate workshops and develop immersive creative projects that connect people to each other, to place, and to the stories that shape who we are and what we might become.
Show Your WESTSIDE Art Prize and Exhibition 2023
