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Solo exhibitions
Landswatch
SOAG Gallery
15 Elizabeth St, Tighes HIll, NSW
3-27 March 2010
Long Sleep Plain
Yarta Purtli Gallery
Port Augusta Cultural Centre
6 Beauchamp Lane
Port Augusta, SA
March 5th - April 4th 2009
The Quiet Light – Works from the Grindell’s Hut Residency, Fountain Gallery Port Augusta 3rd – 26th May 2007
Group Exhibitions
Love Vomited
Suzannah Jones & Fran Callen, August 2009
Wheatsheaf Hotel, Adelaide
Waverley Art Prize, NSW 2008
Outback Art Prize, Broken Hill, NSW, March – May 07
Hummock Hill Art Prize, Whyalla Art Gallery, SA November 2006
Port Pirie Art Prize, Port Pirie Regional Gallery, SA August 2006
‘New Art 6’, University of SA, Whyalla Campus Gallery, August – September 2006
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artist biography
Born in Taree on the mid north coast of NSW, Suzannah grew up in the small nearby town of Wingham. At the age of 18 she left to study art theory at the College of Fine Arts in Sydney, graduating with Honours in 1997. After floating between Sydney, the Blue Mountains and Newcastle, studying education, arts management and teaching in high schools, she packed up her car and left for the arid lands of Whyalla in South Australia. It was a fella and a sense of adventure that attracted her, however the fella didn't work out but she remained anyway.
After her initial negative reaction to the cultural shock of living in Whyalla, Suzannah soon became a part of the community, working as an Arts Officer for Country Arts SA and later, as Artistic Director for d'faces of youth arts. Amongst this she was involved in many community projects including the founding of the Fishy Fringe Festival.
Drawn to the energy of the surrounding landscape of the Eyre Peninsula and the Flinders Ranges, she began drawing it in 2006. This came about when she engaged Artist Ken Orchard to run a landscape drawing workshop for local artists. She decided to participate and hasn't stopped drawing since. Later that year she won the Grindell’s Hut Residency and subsequently held her first solo show at the Fountain Gallery in 2007.
In 2008, Suzannah left her job, sold her house, and travelled solo around Australia with a purple teardrop caravan, drawing the landscape along the way.
While an amazing experience, it made her realise that one has to live in a landscape before they can attempt to capture it. Hence, she always returns to the Eyre Peninsula for inspiration.
Suzannah is currently based in Port Stephens, NSW.
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Education
Bachelor of Art Theory (Honours)
College of Fine Arts, University of NSW.
Grad.Dip.Ed (Secondary), University of Western Sydney
Grad. Cert. Arts Management, University of Technology Sydney.
Suzannah attends classes at the
Hunter Valley Art School.
www.huntervalleyart.com.au
Prizes
Merit Award, Port Pirie Art Prize 2006, Port Pirie Regional Gallery, SA
Ist prize: Category;
‘Any other medium other than watercolour’, Hummock Hill Art Prize 2006,
Whyalla Art Gallery
Residencies
Grindell’s Hut Artist Residency, Gammon Ranges (Northern Flinders Ranges) for four weeks during November 2006. Supported and funded by Port Augusta City Council, Northern Regional Development Board, Fountain Gallery and National Parks and Wildlife Services
Collections
Port Augusta City Council Collection
OneSteel Collection
Various private collections
Press
Love vomited was listed as 'Bj's Art Exhibition of the Week', in Rip it Up Magazine, Aug 27th - Sep 3rd, 2009
Interview with Breathe Magazine, Winter 2009
Workshops she has run....
2006 - mosaic paving workshop, Fishy Fringe Festival
2007 - One day landscape drawing workshop, Port Augusta, SA. Funded by Port Augusta City Council
2007- Managing Museum Collections workshop in Cleve, employed by Community Arts Network.
2009 - Five Day drawing workshop, Aboriginal Arts and Cultural Centre, Ceduna, SA, Funded by Country Arts SA
2009 - Fishy Fringe Festival lantern making
Community Artist - Projects
2002 - Worked as part of a team building mosaic benches for the Streaky Bay Foreshore, SA
2003 - Worked as part of team building a large mosaic mural for the Glenelg Foreshore Development, SA.
2006 - Coordinated and instructed the building of mosaic pavers for the Cultural Precninct in Whyalla.
2005 - 2007 - Fishy Fringe Festival. Part fo the founding group of the week long arts festival. Responsible for the Artistic Programme.
Arts Jobs
2001 -2008 Arts Development Officer
for Country Arts SA - Involving working with communities and local government, helping source funding for artists and community group projects, Advise on the mamagement and coordination of arts projects. Co-ordinator of the Whyalla Art Prize (National $25,000 art prize) , coordinator of the Middleback Foyer Gallery, etc
2003-2007 - Artistic Director of d'faces of youth arts - an award winning regional youth arts company funded by state and federal government. Involved theatre, dance, film, multimedia and visual arts projects.
Other miscellaneous activities
Flute player in the Irish Folk band, Seanachi - 2002-2006
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