Susan Absolon

With a focus on language, touch, material, and process in the moment of making, my works develop organically until the material holds a form that points back into the world. I like to baffle source and narrative so that a painting takes a direction I could not have anticipated. Somehow the subjects that interest me find a way in through the material and the making.

Biography
Susan Absolon studied at University College London and at West Surrey College of Art & Design, Farnham. She has a BA in modern languages and literature (1979), a BA in Fine Art (1988), and took postgraduate studies at Central Saint Martins in London (1989). Following parallel careers in art collection management and freelance contemporary rug design, Susan has worked as an independent artist since 2011. She received a Juliet Gomperts bursary in 2012 and was awarded the Contemporary British Painting Prize in 2021. Her work has been exhibited in Europe and widely across the UK.