SUZANNE ARCHER Afterlife CONTACT: LINDA GREEDY OR A MAITLAND REGIONAL MICHELLE MAARTENSZ Gallery and Collection Assistant ART GALLERY TOURING Mailtand Regional Art Gallery PO Box 220 Maitland NSW 2320 E X H I B I T I O N C U R AT E D Phone : (02) 49349859 (gallery) | Fax: (02)4933 1657 | Email: BY JOSEPH EISENBERG [email protected] or [email protected] SUZANNE ARCHER Afterlife maitland regional art gallery maitland regional art gallery SUZANNE ARCHER: (cover left) Aftermath, 2005, oil on canvas, 275 x 275 cm, (cover right) Flower, 2004 mixed media 95 x 24 x 24 cm A MAITLAND REGIONAL ART GALLERY TOURING EXHIBITION CURATED BY JOSEPH EISENBERG : 2 SUZANNE ARCHER Afterlife Expression of interest form Name of venue Venue contact name Venue address Telephone Email PREFERENCE 1 DATES : from to SUZANNE ARCHER Afterlife PREFERENCE 2 DATES : from to Name Signature Date: PLEASE RETURN TO: CONTACT: LINDA GREEDY OR MICHELLE MAARTENSZ Gallery and Collection Assistant Mailtand Regional Art Gallery PO Box 220 Maitland NSW 2320 Phone : (02) 49349859 (gallery) | Fax: (02)4933 1657 | Email: [email protected] or [email protected] A MAITLAND REGIONAL ART GALLERY TOURING EXHIBITION CURATED BY JOSEPH EISENBERG : 2 A MAITLAND REGIONAL ART GALLERY TOURING EXHIBITION CURATED BY JOSEPH EISENBERG : 3 SUZANNE ARCHER Afterlife SUZANNE ARCHER Biography Born in Surrey, England, Archer studied at the Sutton School of Art 1962-64, before moving to Australia in 1965. She has traveled widely throughout Africa, Asia, Europe and the USA including residencies at the Greene Street Studio in New York and the Power Studio at Cite Internationale in Paris. Archer has an extensive exhibiting history with more than 30 solo exhibitions and over 90 group exhibitions. She has received various awards, most recently the 2010 Dobell Prize for Drawing. Other awards include the Fishers Ghost Award,1997 and 1998, the Wynne Prize in 1994 and a fellowship from the Visual Arts/Craft Board, 1993. SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS: SELECTED COLLECTIONS: 2010 Afterlife Maitland Regional Art Gallery Art Gallery of NSW 2009 Shelf-Life (Paintings and Sculptures) Wilson Street Australian National Gallery Gallery, Sydney Calrossy Girls School Collection Tamworth 2008 Mistress of the Dead (Paintings and Sculptures) Campbelltown City Art Gallery Tin Sheds Gallery, Sydney Dubbo City Art Gallery 2007 BreathLess Wallspace Gallery, Sydney Faber-Castell Collection 2004 Horses for Courses War Memorial Art Gallery Gold Coast City Art Gallery Sydney University La Trobe Valley Arts Centre 1996 Small Bronzes & Collage Coventry, Sydney, NSW Maitland Art Gallery 1986 After Africa (Paintings and sculptures) Rex Irwin, National Gallery of Victoria Sydney, NSW New England Regional Art Museum 1979 Paintings from New York & Paris Watters Gallery, University of Southern QLD Sydney, NSW University of NSW 1970 Collages and Paintings Pinkney Gallery, London, England SELECTED GRANTS AND AWARDS: SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS: 2010 Dobell Prize for Drawing AGNSW 2010 Kedumba Drawing Award 2010 Blue Mountain 2010 Dobell Drawing Prize Exhibition Art Gallery of NSW Grammar School 2009 Collections Hawkesbury Regional Gallery 2006 Willoughby Art Prize-Painting Sect Willoughby 2007 BloodLines Hawkesbury Regional Gallery and Tour Civic Centre NSW 2005 Hutchins Art Prize (works on paper) The Long 2006 James Kiwi Watercolour Prize Wollongong Gallery, Salamanca Place, Hobart City Gallery 2003 International Contemporary Drawing Art Beijing 1994 The Wynne Prize AGNSW, Sydney, NSW Xi’an Academy of Fine Arts & Guangzhou, 1992 The Prime TV Painting Prize Travel: London, Academy of Fine Arts China. Paris & Singapore 1994-95 Archibald, Wynne & Sulman Prizes Regional Tour 1987 Pring Prize AGNSW, Sydney, NSW of selected work 1986/92 Trustees Art Prize & Pring Prize AGNSW Sydney, NSW 1988 9x5xMail The Centre Gallery, Surfers Paradise, QLD 1982 Georges Prize Melbourne, VIC 1981/85 Australian Perspecta AGNSW, Sydney, NSW 1980 Cairns Purchase Prize Cairns, QLD 1977 Watters at Pinocotecha Melbourne VIC 1977/82/83 Campbelltown Art Prize Campbelltown City Bicentennial Art Gallery A MAITLAND REGIONAL ART GALLERY TOURING EXHIBITION CURATED BY JOSEPH EISENBERG : 4 SUZANNE ARCHER Afterlife Exhibition Rationale The idea of the transformation from life to death and what actually happens to bodies is a fascination to Suzanne. From her early drawings of veterinary dissections with fellows students to a complete fixation with the transformation from life to death Suzanne has questioned ‘life and death and what on earth is it all about?’ From about 2002 Suzanne brought collected dead birds and rats and the skulls or small carcasses of animals back in her studio. Sketches of these animals transformed into powerful, dynamic and gestural images. Says Suzanne: ‘I work large and I can only say for me it’s about energy, it’s about a physical power and energy. When I am working I am actually energised by using my body and that works much better on a larger scale. I’m also fascinated by people’s reaction to things being scaled up from the normal size. So obviously if it is quite a disturbing image it’s a much more disturbing on a larger scale. And of course, heroes like Goya, particularly his black paintings give me a lot.” Exhibition Description 39 ARTWORKS BEING: - 15 x works on paper – approx 57 x 38 cm - 1 x Silk screen print 57 x 76 cm - 10 x Paintings – diptych approx 240 x 240 cm - 11 x Sculptures – shelf sculptures and works requiring plinths. A MAITLAND REGIONAL ART GALLERY TOURING EXHIBITION CURATED BY JOSEPH EISENBERG : 4 A MAITLAND REGIONAL ART GALLERY TOURING EXHIBITION CURATED BY JOSEPH EISENBERG : 5 SUZANNE ARCHER Afterlife Exhibition details ORGANISED BY Maitland Regional Art Gallery TOURED BY Maitland Regional Art Gallery CURATOR Joseph Eisenberg TOUR AVAILABLE From 2011 58 metres for paintings RUNNING METRES each sculpture requires approximately 1square metre CATALOGUE 40 page full colour catalogue will accompany the exhibition SUPPORT MATERIAL Comprehensive Education kit large paintings will be bubble wrapped, smaller works on paper PACKAGING will be enclosed in a bubble wrap envelope, each sculpture will be secured in a travel crate INSTALLATION The exhibition can be hung in 2 -3 days by 3 – 4 assistants LABELING all labeling will be provided COST $1000 plus freight INSURANCE included in fee CONTACT: LINDA GREEDY OR MICHELLE MAARTENSZ Gallery and Collection Assistant Mailtand Regional Art Gallery PO Box 220 Maitland NSW 2320 | Phone : (02) 49349859 (gallery) Fax: (02)4933 1657 | Email: [email protected] or [email protected] A MAITLAND REGIONAL ART GALLERY TOURING EXHIBITION CURATED BY JOSEPH EISENBERG : 6 SUZANNE ARCHER Afterlife SUZANNE ARCHER : Icon II, 2008 oil on canvas 240 x 307 cm A MAITLAND REGIONAL ART GALLERY TOURING EXHIBITION CURATED BY JOSEPH EISENBERG : 6 A MAITLAND REGIONAL ART GALLERY TOURING EXHIBITION CURATED BY JOSEPH EISENBERG : 7 SUZANNE ARCHER Afterlife SUZANNE ARCHER : Troy, 2004 mixed media 101 x 74 x 24 cm A MAITLAND REGIONAL ART GALLERY TOURING EXHIBITION CURATED BY JOSEPH EISENBERG : 8 SUZANNE ARCHER Afterlife SUZANNE ARCHER : Dodo with rider, 2009 papier mâché with other mixed media over a steel armature 67 x 87 x 45 cm A MAITLAND REGIONAL ART GALLERY TOURING EXHIBITION CURATED BY JOSEPH EISENBERG : 8 A MAITLAND REGIONAL ART GALLERY TOURING EXHIBITION CURATED BY JOSEPH EISENBERG : 9 SUZANNE ARCHER Afterlife SUZANNE ARCHER : Soar, 2007 oil and wax on canvas 240 x 240 cm A MAITLAND REGIONAL ART GALLERY TOURING EXHIBITION CURATED BY JOSEPH EISENBERG : 10