Susie Turner initially trained and worked as an illustrator and graphic artist before pursuing her interest in fine art printmaking. Based in South Cambridgeshire, she currently practices as a visual artist and works as a part-time tutor at Curwen Print Study Centre. Here she delivers talks and demonstrations about traditional and contemporary methods of fine art printmaking to school children, students, teachers and professional artists. Working within an educational environment Susie is keen to support the development of artist’s ideas around print. Within her own practice she often explores more innovative possibilities through printmaking by combining traditional methods with contemporary techniques and extending 2D imagery into 3D form. Photography, drawing, mould making and casting are used to explore and develop ideas.
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Much of my work is inspired by the natural world and elements connected with life, movement and change. I am particularly interested in the impermanence of natural processes and the idea that nothing is static or fixed in time – everything is in continual and relative motion. This has led me to explore ways of depicting the movement of time through the use of transient material and natural phenomena – both offering the potential for change and allowing an exchange between prediction and chance. Camera-less and lens based photography are often used as a means of capturing or fixing in time the very act of change. An interest in making permanent the ephemeral has also led me to explore ways of transferring image to form.
The fusion of art, science, and technology provides a means of realizing intangible things and makes unseen worlds visible. Recent work is informed by the creative approaches and methodologies of both art and science. In particular how a knowledge and understanding of the biological and physical sciences influences contemporary art practice and encourages a greater understanding of what is inside us and around us. I am keen to consider further ‘nature’ and the notion of impermanence in relation to broader cultural and social aspects of the environment, for example nature’s part in influencing modernity and technology.
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2007-2009
MA in Printmaking/Visual Arts at Camberwell College of Arts, University of the Arts, London
2003-2006
BA (Hons) in Fine Art Printmaking at Cambridge School of Art, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge
1985-1987
Higher National Diploma in Illustration/Graphic Design at Bournemouth and Poole College of Art & Design
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Selected Exhibitions
2010
Curwen Print Study Centre / Cambridge Art Fair
‘Surface’ / Clare Hall Gallery, University of Cambridge
2009
International Open Print Show / Art at Wharepuke, New Zealand
Unwrapped: Christmas Open / Babylon Gallery, Ely
MA Visual Arts summer show / Camberwell College of Arts, London
Curwen Print Study Centre / Cambridge Art Fair
‘Sustainability’ / ‘we are arts’ galleries / Central Saint Martins, London
Inside Out’ / House Gallery, Camberwell, London
2008
Curwen Print Study Centre / Cambridge Art Fair
Print Show / Denbies Wine Estate / Dorking
Wilson Road Gallery / Camberwell College of Arts
2007
Cambridge Open Studio
St. Barnabas Press / Cambridge
2006
RBSA Print Prize Exhibition / Royal Birmingham Society of Artists, Birmingham
Summer show / Haddenham Galleries
Undergraduate Degree Show / Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge
‘Artists in Print’ / Broughton House Gallery, Cambridge
2005
‘Prologue’ / RK Burt Gallery, Southwark, London
2003/2004
Cambridge Open Studios
Palace House / Newmarket
Whittlesford Gallery / Cambridge
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Awards/Prizes
2005
Intaglio Printmaker Prize
Prologue / RK Burt Gallery, London
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Recent workshops/talks
2009 – 2010
Lunchtime talk / Technology and Art – the practices and processes of fine art printmaking / Clare Hall, Cambridge
Printmaking workshop / Clare Hall, Cambridge
Drop-in session in printmaking for young adults in conjunction with SOURCE / Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
Adult workshop in Printmaking inspired by the Lion Mannocci exhibition, Clouds and Myths / Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
Adult workshop in Printmaking inspired by the Mexican Prints exhibition, Revolution on Paper, / British Museum, London
Family Print workshop in conjunction with the Curwen studio – 50 years exhibition / Town Hall Galleries, Ipswich