Exhibition
Susan Gunn
5 Feb 2016 – 27 Feb 2016
Event times
10.00am - 5.00pm
Cost of entry
Free
Address
- Elm Hill
- Norwich
- NR3 1HN
- United Kingdom
Mandell’s Gallery are delighted to host an exhibition of paintings by Susan Gunn who won the Sovereign European Painting Prize in 2006. 10 years on we are delighted to announce her return to the city, where she studied at Norwich University of the Arts,
About
Mandell’s Gallery is delighted to be hosting a solo exhibition by artist Susan Gunn. Susan is a winner of the Sovereign European Art Prize, and author of the recently unveiled iconic artwork ‘Terra Memoria’ commissioned for the new Enterprise Centre at the University of East Anglia. Susan is a Fine Art graduate from Norwich University of the Arts, she has been a practicing artist for over a decade and has work in public and private collections around the world.
Susan Gunn uses natural earth pigment and an authentic glue binder to make surfaces that react to the environmental conditions and the tension in the canvas. Cracks and fissures appear in the surface that
are beyond the artists control and, historically, considered defects in the gesso.The organic nature of the fissures are in opposition with the strict geometry embedded in the painting.The resilience and fragility of the medium is exposed, apparent and contradictory.
In a recent essay,The Beauty of Imperfection, by Robert Priseman he concludes...
“Tragedy is the birthplace of the sacred...the loss of those we love reminds us of how precious life is. In representing this in art, Gunn offers a series of universal images which depict the fragile and lost in all of us...in doings so, she creates a metaphor for our broken nature, which clearly defines the beauty of our imperfect humanity.”
“Susan’s work is an absolutely wonderful example of how incredibly complex simple things can be and also how incredibly simple complexity can be…”
Nichola Johnson OBE Terra Memoria Commission Opening UEA 2015