Creative Legacy Artist - Sara Saleh

We would like to welcome our newest artist for Creative Legacy- Sara Saleh. Sara is our last artist in residence for 2020.

Sara Saleh is an award-winning Arab-Australian poet, human rights activist and long-time campaigner for refugee rights and racial justice. She has worked for Amnesty International and CARE International in Australia and the Middle East - in Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan and on the Syrian border.

As part of her roles, Sara has appeared on ABC News 24, The Drum, SBS (Arabic and English) and has written for Fairfax, news.com.au, ABC, Junkee and New Matilda. A poet and writer, Sara's first poetry collection was released in 2016 and explores themes of displacement, migration, identity and women. Her poems have been published in English and Arabic in SBS Life, Australian Poetry Journal, Bankstown Poetry Collections, The Dirty Thirty, and global anthologies A Blade of Grass, Solid Air and Making Mirrors.