EXPERIENCE AND AWARDS
Susanna’s work was selected for the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition in London in 2023. Her Archibald Prize entry of Chef Guy Grossi was selected for Salon des Refuses and toured to Tweed River Gallery in 2010. Following a solo show in Sydney in 2023, Susanna will show her work in a second solo show at the Gallery at Green and Stone in Fulham, London, in 2024.
Susanna has spent part of the past decade studying intensive drawing and painting at selective atelier schools in Italy - the Florence Academy of Art and the Angel Academy of Art.
Career highlights:
2024 - Solo painting show at The Gallery at Green and Stone, Fulham, London2023 - Solo exhibition, M2 Gallery, Sydney2023 - Selected to hang in the Royal Academy’s Summer Exhibition, London2022 - Paintings featured in ‘Oceania’ exhibition of five painters at Groupo Donatello, Florence, Italy
2014 - 2022 - Commissions and private sales of portrait drawings and still life oil paintings
2004 - 2018 - Exhibiting artist, Kuringai Art Society (KAS) and committee member 2012
2012 - Sell out solo exhibition comprising 16 drawings in Kent street, Sydney
2010 - Archibald Prize pen and ink portrait entry of Australian chef Guy Grossi selected for the SH Ervin Gallery’s Salon des Refuses, touring to Tweed River Gallery
2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012 - Recipient of various awards including first prize for drawing and ‘Best work on paper’, KAS awards
2008 - 2012- Exhibiting artist for the Royal Art Society of NSW in Lavender Bay, works selected for exhibitions including Thora Unga Memorial Award
2009 - Exhibitor and award winner, Hunters Hill Art Prize
Formal training:
Florence Academy of Art - ARC certified internationally recognised art school dedicated to reviving 19th century traditions: part time study of intensive drawing curriculum - 2014 - 2020
Angel Academy of Art: intensive painting - 2021
Private painting tuition in Florence by noted artist Tanvi Parthare - 2021
RECENT WORK
JOURNAL, BICARDI AND COFFEE POT
Oil on canvas, 60 x 70 cm
FLORENTINE SKY
Watercolour on Arches paper, 30 x 20 cm
STILL EPHEMERA
Oil on canvas, 70 x 55 cm
SATURDAY’S CUT
Oil on canvas 40 x 50cm
CLASSICAL FIGURE STUDIES
Charcoal on Roma paper
FLORENTINE ROSES
Oil on canvas, 70 x 60 cm
HARVEST APPLES
Oil on canvas, 70 x 60 cm
PEONY 1
Pen and ink with wash on paper, 50 x 50 cm
THREE ROSES
Oil on wood panel, 25 x 30 cm