PAGE Susan Derges

Creating a collaborative piece while discussing the future of image making and reviewing your own work.

It's always difficult to describe workshops especially when the Tutor is pushing the edges of our mediums envelope. Words fail me but I can tell you that along with Tim Macmillan's this is the one for me this year! (ed aka Peter Goldfield)

Susan studied painting at Chelsea School of Art in 1973, Painting and computer graphics at The Slade in1978 and researched into audio-visual media at Tsukuba University, Japan in 1982. She has exhibited widely - for those that don't know her breathtakingly beautiful images, the titles of shows in London, Berlin, Tokyo or New York may give a clue: Machine Dreams, Phenomenart, Between Sun and Earth, Growth and Form, Full Circle and Embodied. New work can be seen in 1996/7 at the Jeffry Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, the Hue-Williams Gallery, London and the James Danziger Gallery, New York. Susan lectures at The University of Plymouth in Exeter. Today her work is concerned with the natural rhythms and cycles of nature, using light to fix the metamorphoses of various life forms such as toads and bees directly as photographic imprints, evoking a sense of wonder and enchantment

To quote Derges, quoting Ruskin "....when the eye grows weary of the open landscape and the long views to its horizons, refreshment can be found by focusing on the minutiae that lie at one’s feet" Susan will examine how images and sequences can be developed that reflect the innate qualities of a natural world and is mediated through our own awareness. How to say more with less will provide a way to invent and discover new ways of working with light, transparency, opacity, structure, movement and change. We will examine processes such as sunprinting (cyanotypes) and cameraless photography.

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