Susie Dureau

'Beyond Species' explores the relationship between the body and the landscape as an interconnected ecological field. Joy is an important compass guiding the work through colour, playful gesture, and varied applications of paint. The composition develops through a balance of spontaneity and deliberation, informed by a history of landscape practice. The resulting forms are familiar yet indeterminate, suggesting coastlines, pathways, or bodies of water. This approach reflects an understanding of the self as one step within a larger sequence of nature, dismantling assumptions of human separateness or privilege within a broader network of non-human forces.

Susie Dureau’s oil paintings, light installations and spectrogram collages are portals into other worlds: worlds where reality and imagination are interchangeable. She ‘feels’ as a way of thinking, using her primary experience of the natural world as a guide. While her artworks are landscape-based, they invite non-literal interpretations about light, colour, and energy in the landscape. They point to the wildness and primal nature in humankind. Her current investigation explores the forces that bind humanity into an intimate reciprocal relationship with the more-than-human world.