SUZANNE ARCHER
BIOGRAPHY
Suzanne Archer was born in Surrey, UK and studied at the Sutton School of Art (1964). She arrived in Australia in 1965 and is based in the Wedderburn region of New South Wales. Archer has exhibited regularly since the late 1960s and is a recipient of the Wynne Prize (1994), the Dobell Prize (2010), the Kedumba Drawing Prize (2010) and the Eutick Memorial Still Life Award (2018). She has undertaken residencies at Greene Street Studio, New York; Power Studio at Cite Internationale, Paris and Red Gate Residency, Beijing. Career surveys have been held at the Macquarie University Art Gallery, Sydney (2016) and Campbelltown Arts Centre, Campbelltown (2019) . Archer’s work is held in the collections of the National Gallery of Australia, the National Gallery of Victoria, the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Artbank as well as significant regional and tertiary institutions.
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SUZANNE ARCHER
SONG OF THE CICADA
Author: Sioux Garside,
Designer: Alyson Bell Design,
Foreword: Nicholas Thompson
Published by Nicholas Thompson Gallery, Melbourne, 2019
188 pages, Hardcover
ISBN 978-0-9953510-7-3
SELLING PRICE $59.95
POSTAGE WITIN AUSTRALIA $22
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SUZANNE ARCHER EXHIBITED IN ‘FEMME-MAISON: IMAGINED BOUNDARIES – WOMEN ARTISTS FROM THE COLLECTION AND BEYOND’ AT MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY ART GALLERY UNTIL 29 APRIL
Suzanne Archer is exhibited in ‘Femme-Maison: Imagined Boundaries – Women artists from the collection and beyond’ at Macquarie University Art Gallery until 29 April Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Women’s Art Movement in Australia in Macquarie University’s 60th anniversary Macquarie University Art Gallery is proud to present this two-venue exhibition program in partnership with…
SUZANNE ARCHER FINALIST IN THE 2024 ADELAIDE PERRY PRIZE FOR DRAWING
Suzanne Archer is exhibited as a finalist in the 2024 Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing with her work ‘The fish out of water’. . The Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing is an acquisitive art award among the most significant of its kind in the country. Named in honour of respected painter, printmaker and draughtswoman, Miss…
SUZANNE ARCHER FINALIST IN HAZELHURST ART ON PAPER AWARD 2023
Suzanne Archer is exhibited as a finalist in the Hazelhurst Art on Paper Award 2023 The biennial Hazelhurst Art on Paper Award is a significant national exhibition that aims to elevate the status of work on paper while supporting and promoting artists working with this medium. Exhibition current to the 12 of November Image Suzanne…
SUZANNE ARCHER EXHIBITION AT ORANGE REGIONAL GALLERY REVIEWED IN ARTIST PROFILE
“It is this feeling of the familiar that pervades Archer’s work and lends the whole a sense of the uncanny, with insects, decayed bird corpses (showing the fragility of a wing) and the human/inhuman aspect of the masks. That said, her work is joyful and exuberantly rich with humanity.”
SUZANNE ARCHER EXHIBITION AT ORANGE REGIONAL GALLERY
Suzanne Archer ‘The Mermaid’s Tail’ is current at Orange Regional Gallery from 29 April – 25 June 2023 . With over 35 years working in the bush, Archer’s life and work are inextricably linked with landscape. The Mermaid’s Tail presents large-scale paintings and works on paper from the last five years. . During this time…
JAMES DRINKWATER AND SUZANNE ARCHER IN TIARNEY MIEKUS’ REVIEW OF ‘AUSTRALIAN ABSTRACT’ IN ‘THE AGE’
As Australian Abstract attests, artistic genres and labels are as much a burden for artists as they are practical for the receiver. If you’re playing music, for example, you want to know if it’s country or hip-hop. Yet within the vast category of abstract art, how an artist understands abstraction, and what lineage they’re working…