[4] 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.

Signed to Polygram (Australia) in 1997, the band's eponymously titled Equa was nominated for the ARIA Award for Best World Music Album.

[27][28][22]In September 2014, Sadia premiered her 30-channel audio installation Notes to an Unknown Lover at Spinnerei Rundgang in Leipzig, Germany.,[29] based on her self-published artist's book with the same title.

[30] She also premiered her installation ‘Fugue: Die Wende, created in collaboration with Stephen Tayler and Darren Munce, at Halle 14 Zentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst (Centre for Contemporary Art) as part of the City of Leipzig's Lichtfest 2014 Kulturparcours.

[34][35] In 2019, Ghosts of Noise[36][37] was exhibited as a four-channel video and eight channel audio installation in The Model Citizen[38] at the RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, curated by Sean Redmond and Darrin Verhagen.