Suzannah Jones is an artist and creative producer living on a farm with her family in the Dungog Shire, on Gringai Country, beside the Dooribang (Williams River).
Her layered abstract paintings and collage works explore landscape as something carried – in memory, in the body, through accumulated experience. She’s particularly interested in how material processes and mark-making create connection to place, and how movement through landscape – particularly the act of driving through regional Australia – shapes perception and understanding.
Originally from the NSW mid-north coast, Suzannah spent nearly a decade in outback South Australia, where the arid expanses of the Upper Eyre Peninsula and the Flinders Ranges profoundly shaped her practice. She now works from her studio loungeroom in regional NSW, exploring the riparian landscape of her home, the wider region, while drawing on the arid lands of her past.
Suzannah has been a finalist in major art prizes including the Pro Hart Outback Art Prize (2024, 2019), Fleurieu Biennale (2024), and Basil Sellers Art Prize. She has received awards including the Dungog Art Prize (2022) and twice the Viola Bromley Prize for Painting at Muswellbrook Regional Arts Centre (2024, 2025). She was the recipient of the prestigious Grindell’s Hut Residency in the Northern Flinders Ranges.
Alongside her studio practice, Suzannah works as a creative producer, designing and delivering community-led arts projects. She is currently developing a major body of work investigating environmental particulates and landscape over the past ten years, with plans for exhibition in 2027.
Education
Bachelor of Art Theory (Honours), College of Fine Arts, University of NSW.
Grad.Dip.Ed (Secondary), Visual Arts, University of Western Sydney
Grad. Cert. Arts Management, University of Technology Sydney
Suzannah attended private classes with Artist, Stephen James (MFA, College of Fine Arts, UNSW) in Branxton and Newcastle NSW. (2011-2013)
Solo exhibitions
A Personal Ecology
Newcastle Art Space, Hamilton East, NSW 1st – 18th October 2015
Long Sleep Plain
Yarta Purtli Gallery, Port Augusta Cultural Centre, Port Augusta, SA
March 5th – April 4th 2009 – Part of the Desert Fringe 2009
The Quiet Light
Works from the Grindell’s Hut Residency , Fountain Gallery, Port Augusta 3rd – 26th May 2007
Selected Group Exhibitions
Suzannah regularly exhibits with the artist collective Dungog by Design and Gresford Community Gallery, NSW
Viola Bromley Prize, Muswellbrook Regional Arts Centre, Muswellbrook NSW 2025
Viola Bromley Prize, Muswellbrook Regional Arts Centre, Muswellbrook NSW 2024.
Pro Hart Outback Art Prize, Finalist, Broken Hill City Regional Gallery, NSW 2024
Fleurieu Biennale, Finalist, Fleurieu Art House, McLaren Vale, SA, 2024.
Basil Sellers Art Prize, Finalist, Basil Sellers Exhibition Centre, NSW, Moruya, 2019
Pro Hart Outback Art Prize, Finalist, Broken Hill Regional Art Gallery, 2018
Burrinja Climate Change Biennale, Finalist, Burrinja Cultural Centre,Upwey, VIC, February 2018
City of Whyalla Art Prize, Finalist, Middleback Cultural Centre, October 2017
Outback Art Prize, Finalist, Broken Hill Regional Gallery, July 2016
Well Spring, curated by Stephen James; Cessnock Regional Gallery, March 2015
City of Whyalla Art Prize, Finalist, Middleback Cultural Centre, 2013
Marked – Drawing Now, Cessnock Regional Gallery, NSW 28th Feb – 24th March 2013.
Outback Art Prize, Finalist, Broken Hill Regional Gallery, NSW, 2012
Love Vomited, joint show with Fran Callen, August 2009, Wheatsheaf Hotel, Adelaide
Waverley Art Prize, Finalist, NSW 2008
Outback Art Prize, Finalist, Broken Hill Regional Gallery, NSW, 2007
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
Prizes/Residency
Winner of the Viola Bromley Acquisitive Prize, 2025, Muswellbrook Regional Arts Centre
Winner of the Viola Bromley Prize for Painting, 2024, Muswellbrook Regional Arts Centre
Winner of the Drawing Prize of the Scone Art Prize 2023
Winner of the Dungog Art Prize 2022
Winner of the Pastel Section, Scone Art Prize 2022,
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
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
To view in further detail her creative projects please visit the following page