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Susie Turner
Artist, Printmaker and Educator

Artist Statement
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 or capturing the movement of time through the use of transient material and natural phenomena. Both offer the potential for change and an exchange between prediction and chance.

The local landscape is a constant source of visual ideas and I often work directly with objects ‘found’ and ‘made’ that change state over time or bear visual reminders of past activity. The intention is to make visible the invisible by arresting the inevitable process of change – creating moments of ‘stilled time’ that reflect a sense of time and place. Printmaking with light sensitive plates and photogenic drawing, as methods of making, allow direct engagement with nature and accuracy in capturing detail.

The fusion of art, science and technology provides a means of realizing intangible things and makes unseen worlds visible. My work is informed by the creative approaches and methodologies of both art and science. In particular, how collaborations between contemporary art practice and modern science can invite new insight and encourage a greater understanding of what is inside us and around us.

Profile
Susie Turner works as a visual artist and educator with a specialism in Fine Art printmaking. She graduated in Fine Art Printmaking from Cambridge School of Art and gained an MA in Visual Arts / Printmaking at Camberwell College of Art. Before pursuing her interest in fine art printmaking, Susie initially trained and worked as an illustrator.

Over the last 20 years Susie has helped raise the profile of print as a medium for learning by sharing her skills and knowledge with a wide range of learners. She has developed inclusive, engaging learning activities for schools, colleges, museums, galleries, charities and trusts, working in partnership with the National Trust, Arts and Minds, Ida Darwin Hospital, Fermynwoods Contemporary Art, Northamptonshire Complimentary Education, Rowan, Hepworth Wakefield Museum, David Parr House, Kettles Yard, Cambridge University Botanic Gardens and RHS Garden Hyde Hall.

Susie has worked with schools and colleges, as a freelance arts facilitator and as a qualified teacher.

Susie is a tutor at the Curwen Print Study Centre and has led specialist workshops on behalf of Leicester Print Workshop, West Yorkshire Print Workshop, Ochre Print Studio, Hot Bed Press, Inky Cuttlefish and Red Hot Press.

Selected Exhibitions
2026 Curwen Print Study Centre, Suffolk
2025 Curwen Archive and contemporary prints, Yarrow Gallery, Oundle School
2025 Green Shoots, Fen Ditton Gallery
2025 LOOP2025, Bankside Gallery
2024 LOOP2024, Bankside Gallery
2023 Woolwich Print Fair, London
2023 LOOP2023, Bankside Gallery
2023 Contemporary Print Prize, Fen Ditton Gallery
2020 Plantlife,, Fen Ditton Gallery, Cambridge
2019 Final Show, Institute of Education UCL
2019 Resist, Freeland’s Foundation Gallery, London
2019 Closer to Nature, Solo show at Printroom, Leicester Print Workshop
2018 LOOP, Bankside Gallery, London
2018 Organic Form, Gallery 57, Arundel, West Sussex
2018 Art of caring, St. Pancras and St. Georges Hospital, London
2017 Sustainability, ‘We are Arts’ Gallery, Central St. Martins, London
2017 Printmakers Council Archive, Scarborough Art Gallery & Museum
2016 Printmakers Council at Highgate Literary and Scientific Institution
2016 Original Print Fair, Espacio Gallery, London
2016 International Mini print, touring exhibition, LPW
2016 LOOP, Bankside Gallery, London
2016 Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge
2016 Shipyard Studios, Wivenhoe
2015 Printmakers Council, Bankside Gallery, London
2015 Advent, Babylon Gallery, Ely
2015 Shipyard Studios, Wivenhoe
2015 50 years of Printmakers Council, New Ashgate Gallery, Farnham
2015 Drawn from nature, Addenbrookes Hospital
2015 LOOP2015, Bankside Gallery, London
2015 20:20 Exchange, Red Hot Press
2014 Wildlife, Street Gallery, University College London Hospital
2014 Nuffield Health, Cambridge
2014 LOOP, Bankside Gallery, London
2013 Eleven Gallery, Hull, Leicester Print Workshop
2013 Time, Highgate Literary and Scientific Institution, Printmakers Council
2013 20:20 Exchange, Hot Bed Press
2012 LOOP, Bankside Gallery, London
2012 ARTCELL Gallery, Cancer Research Centre, Addenbrookes Hospital
2012 Lessedra World Art Print Annual, Sofia, Bulgaria
2012 Margate Gallery, Kent
2011 Art at Wharepuke International Print Show, New Zealand
2011 LOOP, Gallery at Redgate Street, London
2011 Pushing Print, Margate Gallery, Kent
2011 8th Biennial International Mini Print, CCP, Norwalk, USA
2011 Curwen Print Study Centre, Cambridgeshire
2010 Clare Hall Gallery, University of Cambridge
2010 Pushing Print, Margate, Kent
2009 Art at Wharepuke, International Print Show, New Zealand
2009 Babylon Gallery, Ely
2009 Camberwell College of Art, London
2009 Curwen Print Study Centre, Cambridgeshire
2009 Central Saint Martins, London
2009 Inside Out, House Gallery, Camberwell, London
2008 Identity, Wilson Gallery, Camberwell College of the Arts, London
2008 Curwen Print Study Centre, Cambridgeshire
2008 Camberwell College of the Arts, London
2007 St.Barnabas Press, Cambridge
2006 RBSA Print Prize Exhibition, Birmingham
2006 Ruskin Gallery, Anglia Ruskin University
2006 Artists in Print, Broughton House Gallery, Cambridge
2005 R.K. Burt Gallery, Southwark, London (awarded Intaglio Printmaker prize)

Commissions/Residencies
2014 Artwork/Hoardings commission for Nuffield Health Hospital, in Cambridge
2013 Artist in Residence at National Trust - Hoe Fen Woodland Wildlife Area, Anglesey Abbey, Lode. This residency involved working alongside National Trust volunteers and staff, helping engage families, schools and community groups with nature in a creative way.

Permanent Collections
V&A Museum, Print and Image department (50 years of Printmakers Council)
Nuffield Health, Cambridge Hospital
Scarborough Art Gallery and Museum Trust, Scarborough, North Yorkshire
Camberwell College of the Arts, London
Clare Hall Gallery, Clare College, Cambridge (10 years of Curwen Print Study Centre)

Work In Publications
Resist, Henry Ward (Ed) as part of the exhibition at the Freelance Foundation, 2019
Making an Impression, Printmakers Council at 50, 2015
The Illustrated Garden, Alan Marshall, 2018

Education
2007 - 2009 MA in Visual Arts / Fine Art Printmaking at Camberwell College, University of the Arts, London
2003 - 2006 BA (Hons) in Fine Art Printmaking (2:1) at Cambridge School of Art, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge
1985-1987 Higher National Diploma in Illustration and Graphic Design at Bournemouth and Poole College of Art and Designbero
2024

Professional Training
2018 - 2019 PGCE Art & Design (QTS), Institute of Education, University College London
June 2019 Delegate at NSEAD annual conference, Hepworth Wakefield Museum
April 2017 Delegate for Engage (Gallery Education) - Tate Exchange, Tate Modern, London
2012 Ascentis Level 4 Award in Preparing to Teach in the Lifelong Learning Sector (QCF) at Cambridge Regional College

Selected Workshops
2026 Gainsborough’s House Print Studio - Staff development in Solarplate printmaking
2026 Gainsborough’s House Print Studio – Pulling Prints
2025 David Parr House, Cambridge – Garden Blueprint
2025 David Parr House, Cambridge – Drypoint and Chine Collé
2025 RHS Hyde Hall Gardens – Printmaking with Daylight
2025 Cambridge University Botanic Garden – Botanical Blueprints
2025 Curwen print Study Centre – Printmaking with Photopolymer Plates
2025 Gainsborough’s House Print Studio - Printmaking with Photopolymer Plates
2025 Cambridge University Botanic Garden – Monoprinting with Leaves
2024 RHS Hyde Hall Gardens – Printmaking with Daylight
2024 Cambridge University Botanic Garden – Botanical Blueprints
2024 Cambridge University Botanic Garden – Printmaking with Daylight
2023 Cambridge University Botanic Garden – Botanical Blueprints
2023 Curwen print Study Centre – Printmaking with Photopolymer Plates
2023 Leicester Print Workshop – Masterclass in Printmaking with Photopolymer Plates
2022 Curwen print Study Centre – Printmaking with Photopolymer Plates
2022 Leicester Print Workshop – Masterclass in Printmaking with Photopolymer Plates
2022 Cambridge University Botanic Garden – Printmaking with Daylight
2021 Leicester Print Workshop – Masterclass in Printmaking with Photopolymer Plates
2021 Cambridge University Botanic Garden – Drypoint and Chine Collé
2021 West Yorkshire Print Studio - Masterclass in Printmaking with Photopolymer Plates
2021 Curwen Print Study Centre – Printmaking with Photopolymer Plates
2020 Fermynwoods Contemporary Art – Isolated Moments online workshop
2020 Curwen Print Study Centre – Printmaking with Photopolymer Plates
2020 Cambridge University Botanic Garden – Printmaking with Daylight
2019 Hepworth Wakefield Museum - Printmaking with Photopolymer Plates
2018 Red Hot Press - Printmaking with Photopolymer Plates
2018 Kettles Yard, Cambridge – Relief printing workshop
2018 Cambridge University Botanic Garden – Printmaking with Daylight
2018 Curwen Print Study Centre – Printmaking with Photopolymer Plates
2018 Ochre Print Studio - Printmaking with Photopolymer Plates
2018 Hot Bed Press - Printmaking with Photopolymer Plates
2017 Northamptonshire Complimentary Education – Printmaking
2017 Fermynwoods Contemporary Art - Printmaking with Photopolymer Plates
2017 Curwen Print Study Centre – Printmaking with Photopolymer Plates
2017 Cambridge University Botanic Garden – Printmaking with Daylight
2017 Ochre Print Studio - Printmaking with Photopolymer Plates
2017 Leicester Print Workshop – Masterclass in Printmaking with Photopolymer Plates
2017 West Yorkshire Print Studio - Printmaking with Photopolymer Plates
2017 Engage, Tate Exchange, Tate Modern – Sharing practice
2016 Fermynwoods Contemporary Art - Northamptonshire Complimentary Education
2016 Ochre Print Studio - Printmaking with Photopolymer Plates
2016 Red Hot Press - Printmaking with Photopolymer Plates
2016 Cambridge University Botanic Garden – Printmaking with Daylight
2016 Curwen Print Study Centre – Printmaking with Photopolymer Plates
2015 Fermynwoods Contemporary Art - Northamptonshire Complimentary Education
2015 Cambridge University Botanic Garden – Printmaking with Daylight
2015 National Trust / Granta Special Needs School – Printmaking
2014 Cambridge University Botanic Garden – Printmaking with Daylight
2014 Leamington Spa Art gallery and Museum – Young Printmakers workshop
2013 National Trust – Artist in residence at Anglesey Abbey Wildlife Discovery Area
2013 Sedgewick Museum, Cambridge - Festival of Ideas Imprints of Nature workshop
2013 John Clare Cottage - Printmaking with Daylight
2012 Sedgewick Museum, Cambridge - Festival of Ideas Imprints of Nature workshop
2012 National Trust/ Arts and Minds/ Ida Darwin Hospital – Inside out project
2012 Fermynwoods Contemporary Art - Northamptonshire Complimentary Education
2012 West Yorkshire Print Studio - Printmaking with Photopolymer Plates
2012 Rowan Humberstone – Creating Art: Improving Lives
2011 Inspire – Sharing stories workshop

Smokebush

Quy Water

Sense of Place and Belonging

Tree Of Knowledge

Visual Footprints

Nature and Culture