Susanne Bellamy | ||
Suzanne Bellamy, artist and writer, established her Mongarlowe Studio Workshops in 1994 as a base for multi-media work practice, teaching, writing and research, in the bush, east of Braidwood, among the colours and forms of the Australian landscape. Ceramic and sculptural work, printmaking and painting, set painting and collaborative work all come together there, and include an annual Open Studio three-day event in late November every year since 1994. “I studied in the craft tradition as a workshop assistant and apprentice with several sculptors and potters and established a home studio, kilns, and eventually a printing press. I traveled overseas a number of times (South America, Africa, USA, Europe), and made contacts with artists who are still in my working life, and worked for five years as a set-painter with the Michigan Women’s Music Festival in the USA. I exhibit internationally and like to work in the Visual Essay form, (art and text fusions), am a published Stein and Woolf scholar as well as essayist, also working in visual music and abstraction, memory, performance, installations, women’s history projects, futurism and archaeology.” Suzanne exhibits and speaks internationally in the field of visual text, the visual essay, and narrative arts, using printmaking, painting and embossing methods to explore the boundaries of visual perception and writing. She is artist-in-residence of the International Virginia Woolf Society, and a Guest Artist at the State University of New York, Oswego campus since the mid 1990’s. Her most recent exhibitions in Australia were at the Hannahfyre Gallery, Braidwood, in March 2005, and at her Open Studio in November 2007. Susanne's next exhibition "Cosmos" will open on 23 March 2007 at the Studio Altenburg, 104 Wallace Street Braidwood, and remain open until 24 April. |
"Observing and Documenting the Transit of Patriarchy" 2005.
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