Susie Wright is a London born artist and curator who lives and works in Germany. With environment at the heart of her practice, she uses her signature ‘swalkeling’ method and a range of self-styled processes, to create her own personal cartography. She uses her experience of place and landscape to weave concepts together into multi-layered collections. Works on paper, installation, print, painting, objects in the expanded field and confetti, make up her portfolio.
Susie’s goal is to vibrantly engage the audience, provoking curiosity and a deep exploration of our psychological and social spaces. She addresses the tension between chance and self-determination, freedom and the individual, the passage of time and loss, climate change and the power of the Earth.
Artist Statement
My signature swalkeling method, as a process in itself, explores the tension between chance discovery and the mechanics of evaluating and selecting finds. My encounters with small objects and structures in public spaces, throw up unexpected content and ideas for my work. I use thread to notionally record my routes and also work with these incidental still lives, pairing them with a connected world, referencing a bigger journey between people and places, the social landscape of the objects themselves, pointing beyond the time at which I find them.
I have come across a number of things while swalkeling; including playing cards, contact sticker alarm strips and a discarded plastic circle radius master. These small human made objects, trash which has been overlooked, appear as a portfolio of semes that will mark the Anthropocene. These have all informed the imagery and direction in my work, including a self devised anti tarot card pack ‘The Talking Deck’ and my own designed confetti cut outs. On occasion, I put my own artwork back in to the environment, where my confetti flames and people become the object of the lens. These interventions jar the authenticity of the process of real time collecting and add another layer of meaning including referencing the fragility of our environment and our future existence.
My collections converse with one another, best exhibited as a combination of elements, they encompass confetti, works on paper, painting, digital drawing, installation and work in the expanded field where my projects become immersive.
My experimental self styled processes all contain an element of chance. I relinquish control with my ‘confetti drifts’, digital spills, use of the pull of gravity, my automatic drawing process, Co2 puffs ( a manually operated spray mechanism) and with machine duplicated drawings…….My works all draw on these processes but also go beyond the material, to explore these environments as psychological spaces.
The idea of portability and effective use of resources is also part of my practice, much of my work is paperbased or repurposes materials. I run my own studio ecosystem in which I recycle and upcycle my own art works.
I consciously play on the tension between abstraction and representation, meaning and decoration, the individual and society.
This website and my presence on instagram @susiesatelier is a key part of my practice, 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 my collections give you a choice about how you engage and space for your own interpretation. 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.
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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, a member of South London Women Artists and Hannover Kunstverien. A number of her works are in private collections in the UK, USA and Europe.
Exhibitions, Commissions and Residencies
November 2025 - 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 - 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.
September 2024 - Tidelines - Group exhibition - Acid Rain, River and collected 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 - Collectors View - launch Balthasart.com @susiesatelier
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 artist Jazael 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 Work in 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 - @susiesatelier Instagram launch.
June 2021 - Octopus Vase - Commission - Sculpture for architectural niche, installation Feb 2022. Mycenae House, London SE3.
Oct 2020 - WTFCollective2020 Collaboration with artists Alizon Bennet and Wendy Helps exhibiting weekly @WTFCollective2020
July 2020 - Swalkeling - Collection of works and found objects 2016 - 2020
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