Susan Brinkhurst

About The Artist

Susan Brinkhurst had a solo show Pieces of Infinity, October/November, 2023 at The Cut, and exhibited in the For Folk Sake exhibition at October/November 2024

Pieces of Infinity (2023)

For Folk Sake was curated by Alexander Costello & Rebecca Riess and featured the work of 34 Suffolk artists (2024).

PIECES OF INFINITY 2023
Investigating tidal influences of interconnecting rivers and human migration.

As a multi-disciplinary artist my three dimensional practice deals with materiality, scale and the physical process – often working with natural materials found in the landscape.The large-scale charcoal drawings balance between figuration and abstraction, employing a combination of atmospheric charcoal surfaces which I subject to an onslaught of physical and in some cases aggressive marks made with rocks and stones found in the local environment. The energy of the subject is transposed to paper as I explore my relationship with the landscape.

2025
I continue my work on a long-term multidisciplinary project focussed on the landscape and waterways of the River Alde. Walking the same terrain daily I am aware of it’s vulnerability. I see how the river walls collapse, how flooded meadows have been transformed to tidal mudflats. I see how trees die from saline water and new salt water pools appear. And yet within this environmental destruction the shifts can bring a new beauty as nature adapts.

Studied in London and Nottingham UK Visiting lecturer at Norwich University of the Arts and University of Suffolk.
Part time teaching 2000 – 2014, leading student residencies to Finland
Initiated proposals, funding and led numerous workshops and projects within schools and community groups.
Community Arts Coordinator First Light 2019 – 2023.

For Folk’s Sake Group show The Cut

Loneliness and Poetics NAT Gallery

MUD: The Upper Alde Estuary Exhibition across three venues with Britten Pears Arts Organisation at The Maltings, Snape

A collaboration with photographer Eamonn McCabe exploring the physical and spiritual journey from one state to another using large-scale charcoal drawings and three dimensional pieces created from materials on site

https://www.artsindustry.co.uk/feature/3293-the-art-of-photojournalism-image-of-the-month-oct24

https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/24566882.saxmundham-photographers-final-works-display-snape/

2023 Pieces of Infinity Solo show The Cut Halesworth IP19 8BY Investigating tidal influences of interconnecting rivers and human migration

2021 Postcards for Perec UK and Europe Touring https://cfpr.uwe.ac.uk/postcards-for-perec/
2019 Alive in the Universe. Group show at Palazzo Pesaro Papafava, Venice Biennale Examining themes of death, rebirth and life cycles and how they impact on Women
https://www.veniceartfactory.org/alive-in-the-universe

2017 Synopsis of an Untold Tale Solo show at The Lookout Aldeburgh

2015 Wishbone in the Tower Solo show at The Lookout Aldeburgh

Previous selected exhibitions 9/11 Bury St Edmunds Cathedral, The Barbican London, Kettles Yard Cambridge, Ernst Museum Budapest, Stroud Gallery, Bath Fringe
Private collections UK and USA Selected public collections/commissions
Classics Faculty Cambridge University, commissioned by Dr Mary Beard
Imperial War Museum London Arttextiles3
Residencies 2019 Cill Rialaig Ballinskelligs Ireland 2018
Cyprus School of Art Lempa Cyprus 2015
Sivananda Vedanta Dhanwantari Ashram. One month landscape immersion meditation programme
Publications RIBA Eastern Region Yearbook 1992.
Woven Image 2004.
Arttextiles3 2004

Exhibitions Featuring Susan Brinkhurst