Susie Dureau’s oil paintings, spectrogram collages and light installations are portals into worlds where reality and imagination merge. Her artworks are landscape-based although they invite non-literal interpretations about the unseen forces that bind humankind into entangled relationships with the more-than-human world. Susie asks us to ‘feel’ as a way of thinking, by using our primary experience of the natural world as a guide.

Golden Discovery marks a luminous return to the warm golden light that defined Susie’s early works, infused with fresh insight into her sensory connection to the world. This painting weaves the melodic call of a splendid fairy-wren, recorded on a summer afternoon in the coastal landscape, into its visual language. Drawing from spectrograms that translate the sounds of the Australian landscape into intricate patterns, Susie layers this data with her own perceptions and emotions, creating a vibrant interplay between sound, memory, and the golden hues of her artistic vision.