SUSAN
NORRIE |
Susan
Norrie was born in Sydney, Australia in 1953. She was artist in residence
at the Victoria College of Arts, University of Melbourne and the University
of Western Sydney, Australia. She received the Seppelt Contemporary Art
Award, Sydney and Moet & Chandon Fellowship, France. She resides in Sydney,
Australia. Each of Susan Norrie's series poses questions about making art,
each addresses the artist's interests in the conceptual concerns of painting;
between work and the viewer, between contemplative space and the history
and conditions of art. Often Norrie mimics sumptuously fashioned surfaces
in oil, creating a piece that resembles fabric. Norrie is concerned with
the everyday confrontation of material appearance.
SUSAN NORRIE's Biography |
Susan Norrie,
GREY SCALE 1-20, 1998,
oil on canvas, 20 parts, 30 x 20 inches each
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Susan Norrie, GREY GOODS #3, 1998,
oil on canvas, 15 3/4 x 11 3/4 inches |
Susan Norrie,
GREY GOODS #4, 1998,
oil on canvas, 15 3/4 x 11 3/4 inches
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times she uses words in her paintings as an invitation to visual dialogue.
At other times she juxtaposes sumptuous surfaces simulating fabric with
provocative fencing figures choreographed in a dance across a shimmery painted
surface, a bridge from the 18th to the 20th century, providing the viewer
with a visual poem on evolution in art and philosophy. Photography--in the
form of borrowed images in silkscreen, clips inspired by films such as Antonioni's
L'avventura, images manipulated and toned by the artist--has become part
of the artist's repertoire of materials over the past decade. |
Susan Norrie,
SAMPLE #3, 1998,
framed photograph, 43 1/2 x 33 1/2 inches |
Susan Norrie,
SAMPLE #6, 1998,
framed photograph, 43 1/2 x 33 1/2 inches
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with her use of oil, Norrie's photographs invite the viewer into a visual
and theoretical dialogue. Recently the artist has added video and wall text
to her repertoire of media. Fascinated by the only hand pleater in Australia,
Norrie documented in video the extraordinary process of creating a seven-minute,
mesmerizing comment of women's work and a dying art and craft. |
Susan Norrie,
INSTALLATION VIEW OF GREY GOODS EXHIBITION, 1998,
six photographs of hand-pleated fabric samples |
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