Susie Dureau

Says Susie Dureau of 'The Sound of Dusk', "This work marks a return to the cloud motif that threads through my practice. This intimate painting of the sky functions almost like a talisman, holding a concentrated sense of transition. The picture becomes a portal through which questions of perception and presence can be considered. Continually moving, dissolving, and reconfiguring, the sky can act as a quiet guide, drawing attention to impermanence and informing a way of being in the world."

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.