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Susan Haire
I tend to work with series and polyptychs, often on a large-scale, painting a complete body of work for a specific space. Before I begin I choose a title or a theme for each show and issues relating to the fragility of the human condition are recurrent. The paintings, which are usually on paper, evolve through possibilities opening up with the use of chance-based processes: throwing, pouring, flicking, bleeding and squirting paint, using a medicine dropper, using a hair dryer, tilting the surface and washing off partially dried paint.
In almost every show I have had since 1998 (at least one a year) I have collaborated with composers, poets and playwrights. I have recently begun collaborating with New York composer Stephen Dydo. We are both working with London Group member Mark Dickens on the Rebus Touring Arts multi-disciplined production based on Dante’s La Vita Nuova and his ideas of refined love, spiritual love. My projects with Dydo include an exhibition which involves a further response to La Vita Nuova and an exhibition entitled riverrun in the Hammond Museum, New York, whose ethos is to bring together Eastern and Western culture. riverrun is a response to texts from the ancient Chinese treatise, The Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting, on the power of water. The paintings for these projects are hanging scrolls which form polyptychs and in the two shows each has a loudspeaker behind it with a central source of music that links with each individual sound source.
www.susanhaire.com
I tend to work with series and polyptychs, often on a large-scale, painting a complete body of work for a specific space. Before I begin I choose a title or a theme for each show and issues relating to the fragility of the human condition are recurrent. The paintings, which are usually on paper, evolve through possibilities opening up with the use of chance-based processes: throwing, pouring, flicking, bleeding and squirting paint, using a medicine dropper, using a hair dryer, tilting the surface and washing off partially dried paint.
In almost every show I have had since 1998 (at least one a year) I have collaborated with composers, poets and playwrights. I have recently begun collaborating with New York composer Stephen Dydo. We are both working with London Group member Mark Dickens on the Rebus Touring Arts multi-disciplined production based on Dante’s La Vita Nuova and his ideas of refined love, spiritual love. My projects with Dydo include an exhibition which involves a further response to La Vita Nuova and an exhibition entitled riverrun in the Hammond Museum, New York, whose ethos is to bring together Eastern and Western culture. riverrun is a response to texts from the ancient Chinese treatise, The Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting, on the power of water. The paintings for these projects are hanging scrolls which form polyptychs and in the two shows each has a loudspeaker behind it with a central source of music that links with each individual sound source.
www.susanhaire.com
 Valleys of the deep (Rig Veda), 61 x 61 cm, acrylic on paper on board |
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 Secret garden, 50 x 33 cm, acrylic on paper on board |
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