Susie Dureau’s Inverted Universe, 2023, is a record of the weather event that meteorologists called ‘a great river in the sky’ due to the the volume of rain being comparable to a river gathering in the atmosphere. Says Susie of this work, “As the sky-river fell and the earth-river rose, obscuring and revealing landscape elements, I witnessed a reordering of the physical landscape; the world turned upside down. Inverted Universe conveys a sense of the intimate entanglements that bind me to the earth and its systems, a subject that is integral to my painting practice.”

Inverted Universe was made through the Nancy Fairfax Artist In Residence Program where Susie was based during the floods of 2022. Susie was awarded a solo show at the gallery in 2023, through a partnership between the Tweed Regional Gallery and The National Art School, for excellence in painting.