Susan Absolon

With a focus on language, touch, material, and process, my works develop organically in the moment of making until the material holds a form with presence that points back into the world. I like to baffle any source or narrative so that what I am working on takes a direction I could not have anticipated. Somehow the subjects that interest me beyond the studio find a way in through the material and the making. Diverse outcomes, often small scale works, and the sense of a deepening practice over time are things that I value.

Biography
Susan Absolon studied at University College London and at West Surrey College of Art & Design, Farnham. She has a BA in modern languages and literature (1979), a BA in Fine Art (1988), and took postgraduate studies at Central Saint Martins in London (1989). Following parallel careers in art collection management and freelance contemporary rug design, Susan has worked as an independent artist since 2011. She received a Juliet Gomperts bursary in 2012 and was awarded the Contemporary British Painting Prize in 2021. Her work has been exhibited in Europe and widely across the UK.