Susan Derges trained as a painter and is concerned with the creative interface between art and science. A period of living and studying in Japan led her to adopt photography as her principal means of expression using sound, light and water. Her images are often formed as photograms directly onto positive photographic paper.
"Series such as River Taw and Under The Moon...reflect a human scale, where the body is directly referenced in the long, thin vertical format of the prints. The format deliberately counteracts any sense of looking through an aperture but rather suggests a more direct relationship, or experience of immersion in the image"
Susan Derges, Interview, 2006
Biography
1955 Born, London
1973-76 Chelsea School of Art, London (BA Hons) Painting
1976-77 British Council/DAAD Scholarship to Berlin
1977-79 Postgraduate studies, Slade School of Fine Art, London
1979 Boise Travel Scholarship to Holland
1982-83 Postgraduate Research Tsukuba University , Japan
1981-85 Living and working in Japan
1986-91 Living and working in London
1992 Living and working in Dartmoor, Devon
1993-98 Lecturer, Media Arts, University of Plymouth , Exeter
1997 Visiting Lecturer/Guest Speaker, Mills College , Oakland , California
1997-99 External Examiner BA Fine Art/ Photography, Middlesex University
Awards
1981-82
Rotary Foundation Award , Japan
1984
JVC Award , Japan
1993
South West Arts Major Award
Collections
Arts Council of England
Victoria & Albert Museum , London
National Museum of Film, Photography and Television, Bradford
Arnolfini Trust, Bristol
Dorset County Hospital
Kunstlerhaus Bethanien , Berlin
Museum of Fine Arts Boston
The Art Institute of Chicago
Museum of Fine Arts Houston
Metropolitan Museum of Art , New York
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Saibu Gas Museum , Fukuoka
The Hara Art Museum , Tokyo
British Airways
Citibank Private Bank Collection, London
Conoco Ltd, London
Deutsche Bank
Man Group plc., London
Hess Collection Napa , Bern , London
NatWest Group, London
Texaco Plc, London
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