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Susan Purdy

Position title

Lecturer (Visual Art/ Photography) - Gippsland Centre for Art and Design

Qualifications

  • BEd SCV Rusden
  • MFA(by research) Monash

Statement

As an artist Susan Purdy's practice establishes a means of active creative resolution of her mixed Asian and Western ancestry.

In 1996 she traveled to China on an Australia Council Grant to study Chinese Landscape and painting. In 2001 she received a second Australia Council grant for a 3-month studio residency in Taiwan to conduct an analysis of Chinese Bird and Flower painting.  

Her most recent project, New Branches on an Old Tree is a collaboration with Terry Smyth, the Curator of the Southern Chinese Collection, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne.  

Susan is currently teaching at the Gippsland Centre for Art and Design.

Research/Professional activities

Awards:

  • 2002
    • Ulrich Schubert Photographic Award
      Highly Commended

Exhibition:

  • 2005
    • New Branches on an Old Tree
      • Gosford Regional Gallery
      • Albury Regional Gallery
  • 2004
    • New Branches on an Old Tree
      LaTrobe Regional Gallery
    • The Secret of Emptiness
      LaTrobe Regional Gallery
    • New Branches on an Old Tree
      Centre for Contemporary Photography (CCP)
    • Recent Australian Acquisitions
      National Gallery of Australia
    • All Things Pass (with Emma Davies)
      Orson & Blake Sydney
  • 2003
    • The Secret of Emptiness
      Monash Gallery of Art
    • First Impressions - Contemporary Australian Photograms
      NGV Australia Federation Square
  • 2000
    • Nine Dreams and a Song Helengory Galerie Melbourne
  • 1999
    • Love Letters                         Helengory Galerie Melbourne

Grants:

  • 2003
    • Arts Victoria
      Professional Development Grant
  • 2002
    • Arts Victoria
      Professional Development Grant
    • Monash University Faculty of Art & Design
      Research Grant
  • 2001
    • Australia Council Development Grant
      Taiwan Studio
    1996
    • Australia Council Project Grant
      New work
Other
  • Art Director and committee member:
    Lyrebird Arts Council, South Gippsland, Victoria.

Links

 

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Contact details:

p: +61 3 5122 6684
f: +61 3 5122 6684
email Susan