Sandy Edwards is the founder of ARTHERE an organisation that provides services to photographers to have exhibitions in Sydney and throughout Australia. Sandy is also the Curator (part time) at Stills Gallery, Sydney’s most established photograllery from 1991. In this role and as an independant curator she has curated many exhibitions in Sydney.

She has been Curator of SYDNEY LIFE the highly successful public art photography exhibition in Hyde Park, part of Art & About, by the City Of Sydney since 2002. She is a board member of Head On, Sydney’s premier portrait prize which is this year expanding to become Sydney’s first major photo festival. She is leading the exhibitions program for Head On Photo Festival 2010. In 2000 she curated Photographic Lightboxes (with Linda Slutzkin) for the Sydney Airport, 2000, Art Program. These lightboxes in the Arrivals corridors of Sydney Airport are still featuring work by Australia’s best known photoartists and the images have been refreshed once 2000.

As a curator Sandy has a long history of supporting documentary photography in Australia and has had many articles published on this subject matter. She has judged many photography prizes and opened many exhibitions.

Sandy is also a well known photographer. From 1977 she worked as a freelance photographer specialising in portraiture and the arts. Throughout the 1980′s she taught photography at Sydney University’s Tin Sheds. Her best known exhibitions are Welcome to Brewarrina, 1990 and Paradise is a Place, 1996. Paradise is a Place was published as a book, with Gillian Mears, by Random House in 1997. Her most recent exhibition, Indelible, was held at Stills Gallery in 2004. Other exhibition work includes Momiji, An Autumn in Japan, with Stephen Jones (Gallery East, 2001) and First Love, in Close Relations, Australian Centre for Photography, 1999.

Commissions received include CSR Sugar Refinery Project (1978), Parliament House Photography Commission (1986), and the Australian institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (After 200 Years Project ) 1988. Her work is widely published and collected in various institutions including the National Gallery of Australia and the Art Gallery of NSW.