Susie Dureau

Says Dureau of this work, “'Lucky Gods' marks a return to the cloud motif that threads through my practice. Clouds are an enduring form through which questions of perception and presence can be examined. Continually moving, dissolving, and reconfiguring, clouds offer a way to consider uncertainty and possibility at the same time. 'Lucky Gods' reflects on this capacity for openness, proposing the sky as a quiet guide, an atmospheric presence that invites attention to the shifting conditions that inform how I inhabit the world.”

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.