Sadia Sadia
artist
Sadia Sadia is a Canadian-born British installation artist, known for her audiovisual media work, incorporating sound and images, both still and moving.
Education
Sadia received her MSc in Political Science and Economics (Gender, Culture and Society) from Birkbeck, University of London in 1994, MA in Design Studies from Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts in 2001, and PhD in Fine Art from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in 2019. She is a Senior Industry Fellow at RMIT and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
Career
Music
From 1978 to 1993, Sadia worked largely with the Canadian guitar player David Wilcox, producing nine albums including Out of the Woods, My Eyes Keep Me in Trouble, Bad Reputation, Breakfast at the Circus, and The Natural Edge, four of which reached gold or platinum status in Canada. These albums also formed the basis of two platinum-selling greatest hits packages 'The Best of...' and 'Over Sixty Minutes With...'.
In 1993, Sadia co-founded the multimedia world fusion project Equa with Stephen W. Tayler. Signed to Polygram (Australia) in 1997, the band's eponymously titled Equa was nominated for the ARIA Award for Best World Music Album.
During the 1990s she sat as the only female director of the British Record Producer's Guild.
Film
Sadia produced and edited multiple films working with Anthony Stern. In 2004, Sadia and Stephen W. Tayler as Equa also scored Stern's short film The Noon Gun, which was shortlisted for the Satyajit Ray Foundation short film competition and has been shown in multiple film festivals, including the 2004 Melbourne International Film Festival and the 2007 Portobello Film Festival.
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