Susie Dureau

Susie Dureau's 'Ancient Tracks' contemplates the forces that operate across deep time. Fleeting atmospheric events like wind and cycles of humidity and light are part of larger rhythms that leave subtle but persistent traces on the landscape. In painting, the layered application of pigment mirrors geological processes: layering, compressing and eroding in the way that landscapes are formed. By working in accumulations rather than singular gestures, the painting aligns the act of making with these extended temporal scales. Ancient Tracks reflects on how atmospheric rhythms and deep time intertwine, shaping both the land and our ways of sensing it.

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.