“The works are busy with activity and allusions, with clouds, pools and horizons giving way to eyes, breasts and hair. Salas’ titles function in a similar way to her paintings, offering insights that expand our understanding without ever prescribing one fixed meaning, With spent mouths, Cry milk stains, Night jar, To fall in Spring. Driven by emotion and physical experiences, Salas’ paintings and drawings conveying feelings of desire, repulsion and ecstasy in a way that is to viewers both pragmatic and poetic.”

Yvette Dal Pozzo

excerpt from the catalogue introduction accompanying the solo exhibition of mouth and mind held at Goulburn Regional Gallery, November 2024