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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Episode 111- Suzanne Archer the ultimate artist of elimination and addition with an awesome 50 year art career. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-111-suzanne-archer-the-ultimate-artist/id1503610662?i=1000565554442
SUZANNE ARCHER IN ‘THE WEEKEND AUSTRALIAN’ PUBLIC WORKS BY BRONWYN WATSON
In 1965, British-born Suzanne Archer, aged 19 and just out of art school, migrated to Australia. Four years later she had her first solo show at Sydney’s Clune Gallery accompanied by a media blitz from newspapers, radio and television. “(The show) was a hit and I think partially some of the interest might have been…