Susie Dureau

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.

Says Dureau of this work "'Field Notes' continues my exploration of the body as an ecological landscape. At first glance, the painting appears to depict a luminous sky, where backlit clouds gather and dissolve across an expansive atmosphere. Yet this apparent landscape also recalls the unseen worlds within us, the vast microbial communities that inhabit the human body. In my earlier exhibition 'I Am Not an Individual', I considered the body not as a singular, autonomous self but as a living ecology composed of countless other beings.

"'Field Notes' extends this idea, allowing distinctions between body and landscape, interior and exterior, to collapse. The painting invites us to recognise that we are not separate from nature but are landscapes ourselves, shaped by relationships that are immeasurably larger than the individual self."