“The idea or source materials for my work is often an image from the media, a photo I have taken, a sentence someone said, a line from a book or a song, a photo or headline from a newspaper, a scene from a film, that triggers inspiration.
“Painting is the backbone of my work. Many of my paintings try to provoke a dialogue with the spectator, sometimes political, sometimes poetic. They are often visual messages, not closed to open interpretation, trying to reach out and referring back into themselves. Like a whisper or a sharp cry in the dark. I am a witness to events.” Suzan Swale
Suzan Swale has been exhibiting since 1969. As well as painting, Swale has also made installations, videos, photos and mixed media works and was in a performance group for eight years.
Swale’s mixed media work Hegemony, 1982, is currently on show in in the ground-breaking “Women In Revolt!” a major survey of feminist art in the UK from 1970 to 1990, exploring how women used radical ideas and rebellious methods to contribute to British culture.
