Susie Wright is a London born artist and curator, who lives and works in Germany. She is a contemporary landscape artist who holds the
environment at the heart of her practice. Using a range of experimental processes and her own personal iconography, she draws on her experience of context and place to create multi -layered series and collections.
Susie works conceptually, exploring the tension between chance and self-determination, nature and culture, freedom and the individual, the passage of time and loss, climate change and the power of the Earth. She brings these threads together to create works on paper, painting, digital drawing and installation .
Susie’s goal is to vibrantly engage you as audience, provoking curiosity and a deep exploration of our psychological and social spaces.
Artist Statement
My practice involves physicially exploring landscapes, urban environments and spaces at the margins. I evaluate, collect, select objects and things found as I walk on the way, a process, which I call ‘swalkeling’. This process throws up unexpected content and ideas for my work. My memory of place and the photographed landscape that I encounter digitally (the images we consume through the news ) are also included in my practice of discovery and offers a wider context for our current existence. As a result, my imagery derives from an eclectic mix of material objects, photographic memory and ideas recorded in free association.
In making my work, I use experiemental processes, all of which contain an element of chance. I deliberately relinquish control and let vectors in the creative space take over, for example; my ‘confetti drifts’ are papers caught in vectors; I allow ‘gravity’ to move paint across surfaces; I spray manually with colour and air using my own emissions in ‘CO2 puffs’, my ‘automatic drawing’ process taps into the subconscious, I make’ machine duplicated drawings’ where my drawing machine takes over and ‘digital spills’ using the flood of pixels to colour in my digital drawing. These elements and more, find their form in two and three dimensional works. There is so much to say about our world and our environment that my works, by necessity, are full of references and meaningful content. They are made with the intention of creating deeper conversations about the themes they address, some of which are painful or even beautiful to behold. Seen as collections they create an even richer mix with the addition of written works seen on my web pages.
I travel light and often make in transit, portability and the effective use of resources are an important ethical question for me. Much of my work uses paper based or repurposed materials with on demand custom prints and my use of photography, offers a material economy. I run my own studio ecosystem in which I recycle and upcycle my work.
This website and my presence on instagram @susiesatelier is also a key part of my output. The ‘atelier’ manifests as an online gallery, a physical space and an umbrella for collaboration. It is also the place where my public accountability lies. I feel strongly that my artistic practice should serve you as my public, the range of artworks and collections on offer give you a choice about how you engage and space for your own interpretation. In exhibitions, I publish my upcoming shows and give further incites into my series and collections. If you would like to be invited to VIP events and know more about my working processes, please sign up at the bottom of any page to recieve my free monthly newsletter.
If you would like to visit susiesatelier in person by appointment to see my latest work and learn more about my working processes, or commission art work, please see link in contact. Current works availble for sale can be found at my French Gallery partner SINGULART.
Bio
Susie studied Art and Design at Sir John Cass School of Art, London ( Diploma ) Philosophy and Art History at Leeds University (BAHons) and Media and Film at Westminster University (MA). Training as an Art Teacher, at Cardiff Institute of Higher Education. She spent many years sharing her passion for and leading in art and design education and access to the arts in Schools, Adult and Community Learning and Universities. She worked as an arts professional in various institutions including Chelsea College of Art and Design, Working Men’s College and Morley College, London. She set up her atelier in Hannover 2020.
Susie curate’s her own shows annually and regularly participates in group events and exhibitions. She is a founding member of the women artists’ collective @WTFCollective 2020 and a member of South London Women Artists. A number of her works are in private collections in the UK, USA and Europe.
Exhibitions, Commissions and Residencies
July 2026 - Where nature meets culture - Curated solo exhibition - Paintings and drawings - Booth 1 @ Unititled Art Gallery, London, UK
March 2026 - Sisterhood - Group exhibition - Drawing Heal me, dont kill me - SLWA, Lambeth Archives, London, UK
February 2026 - Light Waves - Group exhibition - Installation of the Lost confetti wreath and miniature lanterns - WBFiesta, Whitley Bay, UK
December 2025/ January 2026 - Breathe for Peace - Solo exhibition - Paintings and mobile installation - Springup Art Gallery, London, UK
November 2025/ January 2026 - Love Hannover - Solo exhibition - Painting, drawings and mobile installations - Yoga Schule. Hannover, Germany.
October 2025 - TELEPHONE - Group exhibition - Digital curation - Psychopomp Project, Seattle, USA.
October 2025 - The talking deck - Poster exhibition - Badger and Badger, London, UK.
October 2025 - Borderlines - Group exhibition - Prints, mixed media and mobile sculptures - WTFCollective. Artoluso, Berwick upon Tweed, UK.
September 2025 - ‘Hide me, Steal Me, Be Nice to Me’ - Group exhibition, installation of Heads of state / maps people confetti - Malta.
May 2025 - Dulwich Festival- Herne Hill Velodrome - Solo exhibition, Herne Hill, London, UK
February 2025 - Light Waves - Group exhibition - Installation of Grief and Joy confetti lanterns - WBFiesta, Whitley Bay, UK
January 2025 - Love Triangle - Commission - Pop up mural and mobile work Love in a time of climate change -Stanley Arts, London, UK.
October 2024 - Breathe - Solo exhibition - Painting, embriodery, drawings and mobile installations - Yoga Schule. Hannover, Germany.
October 2024 - Flags flying in Langoed - Group exhibition of flags including Flag for my father - Llangoed, Wales, UK.
September 2024 - Tidelines - Group exhibition - Acid Rain, River andcollected works - WTFCollective. Globe Rowing Club, London, UK.
July 2024 - ‘The Summer Project’ - Artists Residency and Open, The Cut, Halesworth, Sufflok, UK.
July 2024 - ‘Hide me, Steal Me, Be Nice to Me’ - Group exhibition, installation of Heads of state / maps people confetti - ARTE.M, Funchal, Madeira, Portugal.
June 2024 - niki Hannover / the artists and the others - Open call studio visit, Jessica Capra and Mariana Sesma, Hannover.
June 2024 - England is a Forest - Group exhibition, drawing Veteran Chestnut - Small Works Art Gallery / Sluice - ‘Vernacular', Colchester UK
May 2024 - Singulart - Collaboration with online gallery based in Paris - www.singulart.com
May 2024 - Dulwich Open House - Group exhibition, drawings ‘Bristol - Minneapolis - Vigil’ and ‘Sharing out the colours’, Dulwich, London, UK
May - July 2024 - ‘Susie Wright - Fundus’ - Solo exhibition, Offenes Atelier Galerie 78, Bremerhaven, Germany.
March 2024 - SLWA Spring Exhibition - Group exhibition, installation of Vibrant - SLWA, Heritage Cheese Shop, Dulwich, London, UK
February 2024 - Light Waves - Group exhibition, installation of Luminetti confetti - WBFiesta, Whitley Bay, UK
October 2023 - Artuloso - Group exhibition with Atmosphere and Earth Day paintings with Sanders Nicholson - Artuloso gallery, Berwick Upon Tweed, UK.
July 2023 - Atmosphere - Solo exhibition / Collectors View, London, UK
March 2023 - April 2024 Balthasart - Collaboration with online gallery based in Paris - www.balthasart.com
December 2022 - The Fairy Tale Forest - Solo exhibition of paintings, prints and artists publication ‘The Fairy Tale Forest’ . White Box Gallery, London.
November 2022 - Faultlines -Group exhibition with Omicron Volcano and La Palma - WTFCollective. Bottleworks Gallery, Newcastle, UK.
May 2022 - Drawing the City - Collaboration with niki-hannover and artistJazael Olguin Zapata, Swalkeling part of zine shown at the Trafohaus, Documenta 15.
March 2022 - To Have and to Hold - Commission - Mr and Mrs Graebitz. Hamburg.
January 2022 -Carbon-Borders-Voices– Group exhibition with Channel Crossing - Virtual Exhibition curated by the critical fish - www.carbon-borders-voices.com
January 2022 - www.susiesatelier.co.uk -Virtual gallery and workspace - launch, Hannover/London.
November 2021 - 3 Trinity - Permanent exhibition of Quarantine,California Dreaming and Fireworks.3 Trinity, Southwold, UK.
November 2021 - Human Trace - Virtual Exhibition of large paintings Heat, Oceans, Order!Order!,Feed and Migrate, Glasgow COP 26@susiesatelier
August 2021 - Art Work - Artists residency and installation of Art Workin the expanded field. Lehrte, Hannover, Germany. Exhibited on @WTFCollective2020
July 2021 - Collective Memory 20*21- Solo exhibition of paintings, digital prints and poetry. The Greenwich Gallery, London.
July 2021 - @susiesatelierInstagram launch.
June 2021 - Octopus Vase - Commission -Sculpture for architectural niche, installation Feb 2022. Mycenae House, London SE3.
Oct 2020 - WTFCollective2020Collaboration with artists Alizon Bennet and Wendy Helps exhibiting weekly @WTFCollective2020
July 2020 - Swalkeling - Collection of works and found objects 2016 - 2020
Intellectual Property
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