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I consider my work to be landscape based.   Concepts derive from my visual and sensual responses to the natural environment, and I make metephorical connections which develop from my experience of being immersed in the landscape and the elements.  My studio is in the border country of Wales.

Concepts that recur in my work include the illusive and transient; disintegration; decay, and fragmentations which trace former existences.  Border, boundary and path are visual prompts providing reference to the human intervention in the landscape. The readily available resources of soil, rock, mountain streams, vegetation, changing light, ancient sites and archaeology all inform the concepts.

Drawing underpins my work, and I feel that most of my work is drawing, whether two- or three-dimensional, and whatever mediums or method I am using. I am interested in questioning the boundaries within which a drawing is still a drawing, and the linear qualities manifest on a surface or in a three-dimensional space. 


Susan Milne   July 2020
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Biography
Born in Sussex; art education at St Martins School of Art, London
Studio practice in South Wales UK
Career path:  studio practice, exhibitions, residencies, installations, art education, book illustration , textile design,
collaborative arts projects with architects, landscape designers, theatre practitioners, sound producers. 
Co-founder of the Space Project in 1997 to develop work across art disciplines through education and training, theatre, and site-specific projects.
Award: Recipient of the Eirian Llwyd Memorial Award for Printmaking, Arts Council of Wales 2019. Research
into the use of local soils in the printmaking process.
Selected exhibitions and professional engagement:
ILLUSTRATIONS: The High Country in collaboration with Mark Harrell/Five Seasons Press, 2020
BLACK MOUNTAINS COLLEGE delivery of workshops:  Open Studio July 2019; Skeletons of the Land  July 2019
SIDNEY NOLAN TRUST  workshop: Monoprinting  September 2019
THE DRAWING ROOM at HAY. Exhibition: Works on Paper, Prints and Assembages  2018
SIDNEY NOLAN TRUST and the IKON GALLERY, 2017  Printmaking in the Landscape - workshop.
BBC Radio 3   Sound Walk,  May 2017.  Spoken word contributions.
THE TABERNACLE  Traces Exhibition,  Hay Festival External Event, 2016
SIDNEY NOLAN TRUST  Printmakers, 2015
HAY FESTIVAL PRESS: POEMS FOR RS (illustrations), 2013
MONNOW VALLEY ARTS  Herefordshire, UK.  Residency to research culture and the land, experimentation
with materials.  Solo exhibition 2012.
MONNOW VALLEY ARTS:  representation at LONDON ART FAIR, 2012
CONTEMPORARY ARTS SOCIETY FOR WALES  purchase: Land 1, 2011
MOMA WALES  Contemporary Arts Society Exhibition, 2011
ORIEL WASHINGTON, Cardiff:   Re-worked 2006 
ART SHOP GALLERY, Abergavenny 2005
ABOUT FACE THEATRE COMPANY  Installations: The Cutters, 2004 
BRECKNOCK MUSEUM   solo exhibition: Marking Time, 2000
THE COWCROSS GALLERY, London:  Landscape and Art, 1999
BRECKNOCK MUSEUM touring exhibition: Black Mountains Drawings - also at Ceri Richards Gallery,
Swansea, Llantarnam Grange and the Rye Gallery, Sussex, 1994/5
NATIONAL EISTEDDFOD Aberystwyth: collection of drawings, 1992
DEVELOPMENT BOARD FOR RURAL WALES:  Images of Rural Wales  Hay Festival and Palace of
Westminster, 1991
MALL GALLERY, London, Federation of British Artists 1990/91    
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Illustration, design, window & exhibition display,  books & publications, textile manufacturers, retail: 1960-1980, includes commissioned work for: Liberty's textiles, Conde Nast publications, Blandford Press, Ginn & Co., Yardley, Selfridges.
THE SPACE PROJECT 1997-2000
LONDON MILLENNIUM FESTIVAL   Senses of Place, installations in collaboration with the YOUNG VIC
THEATRE  South Bank, London, 2000
SAINSBURY TRUST  The Glasshouse Project, urban regeneration, 2000
INSTITUTE ROMKUNST, Oslo.  Presentation to seminar:  Losing Space, 2000
CENTRAL SCHOOL OF SPEECH AND DRAMA Consultant to student site-specific production:
The Nightwatchman, Oval Cricket Ground, 1999
Corridor,  UNIVERSITY OF GREENWICH, 1999
THE ARCHITECTURE FOUNDATION: Creative Spaces, 1999
CENTRE FOR VISUAL ARTS, The Old Library, Cardiff.  Visitor engagement curator, 1999
YOUNG VIC THEATRE, visual arts workshops, 1997
BRITISH FESTIVAL OF VISUAL THEATRE, workshops. Young Vic, 1998
Public collections holding work
(former) Development Board for Rural Wales; National Library of Wales; Contemporary Art
Society of Wales; National Trust; The Woodland Trust 
Educational posts
Senior Lecturer in Visual Studies, University of Greenwich 1986-91
Visiting Lecturer Larenstein IAC, Netherlands, course development 1991-2000
​Visiting Lecturer in Fine Art, Hereford College of Art, and Swansea Institute 1993-99
Professional memberships
Royal Society of Arts, elected 1997; Architecture Foundation; Engage Cymru: committee member 2005;
Landscape and Art Network, 1997-2000
Bibliography
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The Drawing Room, 2021
Art for Wales  Contemporary Arts Society for Wales catalogue, 2011
Wye Valley Life  November, 2016
Eight Stones, Eight Artists  David Moore, Little Fish Press
Building a Significant Regional Collection  Brycheiniog xxxviii
Galleries,  Robert Newell, October 2000
Scintilla 3  Usk Vaughan Association, 1999
Rural Artists Portfolio  Newtown, 1996
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