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Allan Giddy is a Sydney-based artist working across sculpture, installation, public art, video and sound, with a practice focused on light, atmosphere, ecology and sustainable energy systems. Over several decades he has developed works that connect environmental conditions, technological systems and public space, from solar-powered sculpture and sound installation to recent image-making processes that use polluted air as material.
Recent projects include Mining Thin Air at Redleaf Gallery, Sydney (2025), finalist presentations in the Northern Beaches Environmental Art & Design Prize (2024, 2025), and the Desert Equinox 10th Anniversary in Broken Hill (2022). Earlier works and commissions have been presented in Australia, Aotearoa New Zealand, Germany, Ireland, the United Kingdom, China and Canada.
Giddy was the Founding Director of the Environmental Research Initiative for Art (ERIA) at UNSW and is featured in A History of Solar Power Art and Design (Routledge, 2021). He is a past winner of the Sherman Gallery Sculpture Prize, the Helen Lempriere Travelling Art Scholarship, and the Green Power Prize at Sculpture by the Sea.
Media / Interviews
Turning Air pollution in to Art with Allan Giddy 2SER Radio
Desert Equinox Broken Hill 2022