SUSAN HELLINGS (Red Herring Studios)

Tel: (01273) 430190
Mobile: 07811 926102
Email: Kev@wevy.freeserve.co.uk
www.blinkred.com

BORN:
England 02.02.1956
Lived in Auckland, New Zealand 1996 - 1999

EDUCATION:
1974 - 1975 Brighton College of Art Foundation Course in Art
1989 - 1991 Waltham Forest College Diploma in Art and Design
1991 - 1994 University of East London Fine Art Degree 1st Class B.A (Hons)

EXHIBITIONS:
1993 'Seven in the Gallery' U.E.L.
1993 'Shellsuits' The Gill Gallery, London
1993 Whitechapel Community Homerton Hospital Art Programme
1993 Artist in Residence Exhibition Eastham Nature Reserve
1993 Drawing Exhibition The Gill Gallery, London
1994 Monoprint Exhibition The Gill Gallery, London
1994 U.E.L. Degree Show U.E.L
1994 'Fresh Art' Islington Business Design Centre
1994 One Woman Show Sadlers Wells Theatre
1995 'Art at 100' Hammerson. P.L.C. 100 Park Lane, London
1996 'Art at Work' Addison Welsey Longman, Harlow
1996 'Envoys' Association of Women Artists Lopdell House Gallery, Auckland
1997 Mural Project Aotea Square, Auckland
1998 Mural Project Civic Theatre, Auckland
1998 City Work Shops Exhibition The Stables studios, Auckland
1998 100 x 100 x 100 Show The Drawings Gallery, Auckland
1998 Open Studio Weekend The Stables studios, Auckland
1999 January Group Show The Drawings Gallery, Auckland
1999 Solo Show Peters Muir Petford Gallery, Auckland
2000 ' Quality Street' Phoenix Gallery, Brighton
2001 ' Neo - Pix' Phoenix Gallery, Brighton 2002 Lewes contemporary art fair Thebes Gallery , Lewes
2002 Canonbury Gallery Open Islington
2002 ' Hang Ten ' Phoenix Gallery, Brighton
2003 Impact art Christopher Gull, Brighton

RESIDENCIES:
May - June 1993 Artist in Residence Eastham Nature Reserve
Feb - March 2002 Artist Residency Kovalam, Southern India

AWARDS:
1994 Grant recipient of Liquitex Excellence in Art Student Grant Programme.
1994 Liquitex Award "Outstanding Achievement in the field of Fine Art Painting".

THEORETICAL PAPERS:
A Study in Abstraction: The St Ives Phenomenon.

PRIVATE COLLECTIONS:
England, France, New Zealand, Australia.

ARTISTS STATEMENT:
I make abstract paintings with a predominant interest in colour. My work reflects my perception of life and nature, remembered and imagined images, forms, moods and feelings from the past and present, combined with an on-going exploration of the language of paint and the painting process.
Patrick Heron (1920 - 1999) wrote of painting and inspiration "Inner and outer
intersect, meet and wrestle in an endeavour each to be interpreted in terms of the other"

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