Sara Retallick is an artist, composer, and researcher living and working on Wurundjeri Country in Naarm (Melbourne). 

Her work explores multisensory listening as a core concern by creating tactile sonic encounters in audio and object-based installation, multichannel sound system arrangements, sound design and performance. Her current research is focused on presenting electroacoustic compositions underwater to expand sonic, physical, and material possibilities of sound and listening.

Sara has presented installations and performances nationally and internationally including commissions for RISING (2025): Shepparton Festival (2025): Brunswick Music Festival (2025); Radiant Pavillion (2024); Shepparton Art Museum (2022); Melbourne Design Week (2021), RISING (2021); Melbourne Music Week (2021);  Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid, Spain (2020); CAMP Mountain Music Festival, France (2019); BLINDSIDE (2019); UNSW Gallery, Sydney (2019); I.S.E.A. Durban, South Africa (2018); Bus Projects (2017);  and Dark MOFO, Hobart (2016). 

Sara records and performs music as Golden Syrup using exploratory electronics, bass and voice to meld a range of sonic approaches from beat-driven music,  improvisation, soundscape, noise, sound collage, and folk.

Sara was awarded the Freedman Foundation Travelling Scholarship (2017), and her work has since been supported by Creative Australia, Creative Victoria, NAVA, The City of Melbourne, RMIT University, UNSW and more.

Sara was invited to be the artist in residence at Melbourne Electronic Sound Studio (2022), and has attended numerous artist residencies including Environment and Synthesis, Camp Fr, with Mark Fell, Rian Treanor and CM Von Hausswolf (2024), Eco-Acoustics with Annea Lockwood / Leah Barclay (2019), and Sonic Mmabolela with Francisco Lopez / Barbara Ellison in South Africa (2018).

Contact: sararetallick(at)gmail(dot)com