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about Suzanne
Suzanne lives and works in Whitehorse, Yukon. Her primary media are oil painting and sculpture using a variety of materials such as driftwood, clay, wire and paper mache. Her work is inspired by the human form and by the challenges of expressing the human condition. She is strongly influenced by her own relationship with nature and the north. Her studies of forestry and work in nature education, and subsequent degree in cultural studies and philosophy have fueled her exploration of two converging topics: the realities of the physical and the philosophical worlds. |
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Living abroad in Zimbabwe and Egypt have also added to her perspectives on how societies see the world and has given her an appreciation of the fluid nature of ‘being’.
Suzanne is a life-long learner. With the benefit of a Yukon Advanced Artist Award, she studied painting, drawing, anatomy and sculpture at the acclaimed New York Academy of Art in 2016. She likes to examine the complexities and contradictions of contemporary life, and challenge her viewers with the scale of her work.
Suzanne’s works are in public and private collections in Canada, Egypt, the United Kingdom and the United States.
Suzanne is a life-long learner. With the benefit of a Yukon Advanced Artist Award, she studied painting, drawing, anatomy and sculpture at the acclaimed New York Academy of Art in 2016. She likes to examine the complexities and contradictions of contemporary life, and challenge her viewers with the scale of her work.
Suzanne’s works are in public and private collections in Canada, Egypt, the United Kingdom and the United States.
exhibition history
solo shows
2017: Human Forest, Carcross/Tagish First Nation Learning Centre, Carcross, Yukon (currently on display)
2017: Human/Nature Exhibition, Yukon Arts Centre, Whitehorse, Yukon, Sept 7-Nov 25, 2017
2015: Mask, Yukon Artists at Work Co-op Gallery, Whitehorse, Yukon
2013:
- Artists at Work, Yukon Artists at Work Co-op Gallery, Whitehorse, Yukon
- Portraits of Fayoum, Arts Underground , Whitehorse, Yukon
2012: Portraits, Rah Rah Gallery, Whitehorse, Yukon
2008: Portraits of Fayoum, Portrait Fine Art Gallery, Cairo, Egypt
2006: Of Pride and Circumstance: the people I met in Africa, Temiskaming Art Gallery, Haileybury, Ontario
2005:
- Of Pride and Circumstance: the people I met in Africa, Parry Sound Station Gallery, Parry Sound, Ontario
- Works from the Model, Akin Gallery, Peterborough, Ontario
selected group shows
2016: Opening Showcase by the Southern Lake Artist Collective in the new Art House Carcross, Carcross, Yukon
2015/16: Kingston Prize, Canada-wide portrait competition and exhibition
2015:
- Rock Paper Scissors, Southern Lakes Artist Collective, Arts Underground, Whitehorse, Yukon
- Yukon Plein Air Festival, Whitehorse, Yukon
2014:
- What About the Peel, Yukon Artists at Work Gallery, Whitehorse, Yukon
- Yukon Plein Air Festival, Whitehorse, Yukon
2013: The Kingston Prize, Canada-wide portrait competition and exhibition
2012:
- The Exquisite North, Yukon Art Society collaborative mural, Arts Underground, Whitehorse, Yukon
- Faces, Yukon Artists at Work Gallery, Whitehorse, Yukon
- Au - the Gold Show, Arts Underground, Whitehorse, Yukon
2008: International Art Symposium , Old Cairo International Art Centre, Cairo, Egypt
2009, 2004, 2002, 2001: Kawartha Autumn Studio Tour, Art Gallery of Peterborough, Peterborough, Ontario
1996, 1997: Women Visual Artists Exhibition, National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Harare, Zimbabwe
selected awards and commissions
Yukon Government Advanced Artist Award 2015
Finalist in The Kingston Prize, 2015, 2013
Yukon Government Touring Artist Fund 2013
Best in Show, Trent University Alumni House Student Art Show, 2010
Commissioned to paint Mayor Sylvia Sutherland, Peterborough City Hall, 2006
collections
Yukon Permanent Art Collection
Yukon Arts Centre Permanent Art Collection
John Tizya Centre, Vuntut Gwichin First Nation, Old Crow, Yukon
Yukon Employee's Union
City of Peterborough, Ontario
Portrait Fine Art Gallery, Cairo, Egypt
Private collections in Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom and Egypt.