Susan Banks
Louth
I studied painting at Croydon and completed my M.Phil thesis, The Relationships Between Female Subjectivities And Contemporary Painting By Women in Hull in 2000. Still painting & critically engaged.
Statement update May 2024
My practice-based research is stimulated by curiosity about ancient painting since encounters in Italy, Crete and mainland Greece, My work references female characters, mortal, immortal, heroic, tragic and weird, which occur in Greek mythology.
While fragments of ancient painting are rare, it is supposed that images from lost paintings occur in ancient ceramics so all sources are mined for possible motifs to pilfer and abstract from.
There is pleasure in pattern and playful references; some of the process is Intentionally rough because it is in a painting about paintings that have decayed.
Solo exhibitions.
2021 False Doors and Timeless Thresholds, Orchard Galley, Gunby Hall and Estate, The National Trust. Nr Spilsby.
2012 - Elusion and Revision, Abbey Walk Gallery, Grimsby
2008 -Divertimenta: Abstract Paintings,
2007 Solo Show, RED Gallery of Contemporary Art, Hull
2007 - Divertimenta: Abstract Paintings, Persistence Works [Yorkshire ArtSpace], Sheffield 2005 - Divertimenta: Abstract Paintings, 20-21 Visual Arts Centre, Scunthorpe
2005 - Small Abstract Paintings, Blackfriars Arts Centre, Boston
2003 - Divertimenta, The Ropewalk, Barton on Humber
2002 - Divertimenta, Oxmarket Centre of Arts, Chichester
2002 - Divertimenta, Peterborough Art House
1994 - Solo Show, Kunsthalle, Königswinter, Germany
1991 - Harding House, Lincoln
1989 - Matilda Gallery, Sheffield.
1984 - Solo Show, Louth Area Arts Gallery, Louth 1972 - Solo Show, Leeds Playhouse Gallery, Leeds 1972 - Solo Show, Leeds University Gallery, Leeds
Group exhibitions
Art out of Isolation, Usher Gallery , Lincoln, 2022-2023
Chameleon, Surface Gallery Nottingham, 2019
#200 Fish, North Sea Observatory, 2018
Nasty Women, Stour Space, Hackney, London. 2017
International Postcard Show, Surface Galley, Nottingham, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2022, 2023, 2024
Gifted, Abbey Walk Gallery, Grimsby 2015 - 2016
Painted Surface, Surface Gallery, Nottingham, 2015.
International Postcard Show 2015, Surface Gallery, Nottingham.
Stuft All Over Again, Red Gallery, Hull. 2014
2013 - GO Grimsby Open, 2008 - 20-21 Open Art & Sculpture Exhibition 2008, 20-21 Visual Arts Centre, Scunthorpe 2008 - Nottingahm Castle Open Exhibition, Nottingham Castle Museum and Art Gallery, Nottingham 2008 - Nottingham Castle Open Exhibition, Nottingham Castle Museum and Art Gallery, Nottingham 2008 - Open Art Exhibition, 20-21 Visual Arts Centre, Scunthorpe 2007 - Humber to the Wash, Ropewalk Contemporary Art and Craft, Barton upon Humber 2007 - Women's Work, The Gallery, University of Lincoln, George St. Hull and Hull School of Art , Queen's Gardens, Hull 2005 - Open Exhibition, 20-21 Visual Arts Centre, Scunthorpe 2005 - Signs of the Times: joint show with Tim Oelman, Willesden Gallery, London 2003 - Abstract Painting, Normanby by Spital, Lincolnshire 2001 - Women's Work, Artlink Exchange, Hull 1995 - M.A. degree show, University of Humberside 1994 - Site specific installation, Alvingham Watermill 1993 - Women's Work, Easthorpe Gallery, Mirfield 1989 - Flatlanders, Joint Show with Paul McCann and Peter Stubbins, The Masons, Louth
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