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10 – 18 September 2024
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Bio
Born
1964,
East London
About
Vast, deserted, majestic landscapes with only the slightest hint of a human presence—the headlights of a car or an isolated cabin—are recurrent themes in Suzy’s work. Her images are visual representations of observed landscapes and are imbued with a profoundly personal dialogue and underlying political commentary. Intensely autobiographical, her paintings are better understood as a form of self-portraiture.
Suzy Murphy moved to Alberta, Canada, at the age of five. The move from a small tenement apartment, where she lived with her large Irish family, to the vast open landscapes of North America brought an enormous emotional shift. This experience became the creative catalyst informing her work's tranquillity and magical realism. Suzy’s love of North America has remained, and she continues to travel extensively on annual road trips from the monumental landscapes of the Rocky Mountains to the sprawling townships and prairies. Her diarised sketches record her trips, and these small, spontaneous images become the basis of her paintings. The narrative of her life is the subconscious thread that runs throughout her work and continues to quietly but surely present itself. Suzy graduated from St Martin’s School of Art, London, in 1982. Her work is held in many important public and private collections worldwide.
She continues to live and work in London, England.
Visit her website for more information about Suzy's work: https://www.suzymurphylondon.com
Residency Dates
10 – 18 September 2024
Artist Images
Residency images
Testimonial
Stay tuned...
About
Vast, deserted, majestic landscapes with only the slightest hint of a human presence—the headlights of a car or an isolated cabin—are recurrent themes in Suzy’s work. Her images are visual representations of observed landscapes and are imbued with a profoundly personal dialogue and underlying political commentary. Intensely autobiographical, her paintings are better understood as a form of self-portraiture.
Suzy Murphy moved to Alberta, Canada, at the age of five. The move from a small tenement apartment, where she lived with her large Irish family, to the vast open landscapes of North America brought an enormous emotional shift. This experience became the creative catalyst informing her work's tranquillity and magical realism. Suzy’s love of North America has remained, and she continues to travel extensively on annual road trips from the monumental landscapes of the Rocky Mountains to the sprawling townships and prairies. Her diarised sketches record her trips, and these small, spontaneous images become the basis of her paintings. The narrative of her life is the subconscious thread that runs throughout her work and continues to quietly but surely present itself. Suzy graduated from St Martin’s School of Art, London, in 1982. Her work is held in many important public and private collections worldwide.
She continues to live and work in London, England.
Visit her website for more information about Suzy's work: https://www.suzymurphylondon.com