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
PAST EXHIBITIONS
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SUZANNE ARCHER’S ‘MESSENGER MASKS’ EXHIBITED IN THE ‘2019 DOBELL DRAWING PRIZE’ AT THE NATIONAL ART SCHOOL,
SUZANNE ARCHER SURVEY EXHIBITION ‘SONG OF THE CICADA’ CURRENT TO 5 MAY AT CAMPBELLTOWN ARTS CENTRE
“Over five decades Suzanne Archer has established herself as a painter, sculptor and installation artist. Primarily known for her large textural paintings, her work has been shown and collected by many institutions across Australia and abroad. The exhibition will explore three major themes which recur in Archer’s practice – death and skeletons, travel and landscapes…
REX BUTLER’S REVIEW OF SUZANNE ARCHER’S EXHIBITION ‘MOVING FORWARDS, LOOKING BACK’ INCLUDED IN ‘MEMO REVIEW 01’
SUZANNE ARCHER FEATURE BY JOHN MCDONALD IN ISSUE 46 OF ‘ARTIST PROFILE’
‘Suzanne Archer’ by John McDonald in current issue 46 of ‘Artist Profile’ . ‘Her work develops its own momentum in the studio, regardless of her original intentions. Like Alice on the trail of the White Rabbit, she follow it down some unusual pathways, although her entry into Wonderland more closely resembles a descent into Hades…’…