Europa
2023
Europa is a lifesize sculpture made from maps & cloth. It reflects Susan's time spent in France and questions recent historic events in Europe, including the war in Ukraine, Brexit and mass migration. Europa is a time traveller looking out to what? standing in sea water and carrying a rucksack she bears the weight of an unpredictable future. Meticulaouly crafted and subtly revealing she is both beautiful, and full of foreboding at the same time.
Susan’s interest in the politics of feminism and the body has led to a series of dress sculptures including, Territory Dress, 2018, commissioned by and on permnant display in Our Colonial Inheritance at the Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam and Colonial Dress, which in the collection of the House of European History in Brussels.
Europa was shown in the Hotel d'Astier's Mediaval Gallery, in the exhibition Out of Time as part of Forcalquier Atelier Ouverts Arts Festival France July/Aug 2023
For this exhibition Susan also created a new installation Hot Air, that hung in the art centres Renaissance courtyard.
Exhibitions:
Out of Time Hotel d'Astier, Forcalquier, France 2023
TEFAF Art Fair Maastricht with Patrick Heide Contemporary Art NL. 2024
Art in Forcalquier Celebrates 10 years of Ateliers Ouverts Perfectly Provence2023
Photographs by Brice Duprat, George Greenlee & Basil Galloway
