Susan Eyre
Susan Eyre has a research led practice working across installation, sculpture, video and expanded print processes. Employing scientific systems of enquiry and technology to assist in revealing the unseen and extending the boundaries of human sensory experience, she creates work to encourage a sense of wonder in the everyday and an awareness of an entangled and interconnected universe. She has collaborated in cross discipline projects with scientists and academics, the UK High Altitude Society and Imperial College Space Society. Building her own cloud chamber, and running workshops for the visualisation of cosmic particles she led “Laboratory of Dark Matters”, a research, residency and events programme inspired by visiting the dark matter research facility at Boulby Underground Laboratory. Most recently she built a cosmic ray scintillator detector to activate video animations in real time. In 2024 she was longlisted for the Aesthetica Art Prize. Born in Suffolk, with a past background as chef and programmer she is currently based in London with a studio in Woolwich.
Exhibitions
2024 Life Boat APT (Art in Perpetuity Trust), London SE8; Aesthetica Art Prize Longlisted Artist York Art Gallery; Carbon Science Gallery Bengaluru, India. 2023 A Stone Sky Thames-side Studios Gallery London SE18; 2022 Projected Topographies Saturation Point, London SE8; Anxiety of Interdisciplinarity Island Venue, Bristol; Wells Art Contemporary Wells Cathedral, Somerset; May Fair Art Weekend May Fair Theatre, London W1J; Particle and Wave Festival Contemporary Calgary, Alberta, Canada. 2021 Memento Mori AIR Gallery, Altrincham, Manchester; BIFF 30 Second Film Festival Birkenhead International Film Festival. 2020Visions in the Nunnery Bow Arts, London E3. 2019 Lizard Point Residency Exhibition Lumen Crypt, London E2; Lizard Point Residency Exhibition Museum of Cornish Life, Cornwall; Reading Stones St Augustine’s Tower, London E5; Continuum ACA Allenheads, Northumberland; Insatiable Mind Salisbury Arts Centre, Salisbury; The Cosmic Sublime Pie Factory, Margate. 2018 In Search of Darkness Grizedale Project Space, Cumbria; Beyond ACA Allenheads, Northumberland; Cosmic Perspectives Ugly Duck, London SE1; Scales of Intangibility Studio4 Chisenhale Art Place, London E3. 2017 Supposedly Predictable Phenomena Deptford X Fringe, London SE8; Laboratory of Dark Matters Cleveland Mining Museum, Skinningrove, Cleveland; Laboratory of Dark Matters Guest Projects, London E8; Lumen: School of Light Ugly Duck, London SE1. 2016 Aether Imperial College, London SW7; The Matter of Objects Queen Mary University, London EC1; Blind Plural Hundred Years Gallery, London E2; 2015 A Space Between The Stone Space, London E11; Wells Art Contemporary Wells Museum, Somerset; Rising Stars Coombe Gallery, Dartmouth, Devon; HIX Award C&B Gallery, London EC2A; Show 2015 Royal College of Art, London SW11; Objects Of Café Gallery Projects, London SE16 2014 neo:print prize neo:gallery22, Bolton; Standing on the Frontier Unit 24 Gallery, London SE1;Yesterday’s Wrong Thinking Café Gallery Projects, London SE16. 2013 ArtLacuna Prize ArtLacuna, London SW1; HOT-ONE-HUNDRED Schwartz Gallery, London E9; Surrey Contemporary Robert Phillips Gallery, Walton on Thames, Surrey. 2012 Landscape in Flux C&C Gallery, London SE2; Illumini Shoreditch Town Hall, London EC1; Odds Against Tomorrow BEARSPACE, London SE8; C&C Art Prize C&C Gallery, London SE23; U-N-F-O-R-E-S-E-E-N Studio 106 Art Gallery, London SW6. 2011 Pushing Print Pie Factory, Margate; Surface The Crypt Gallery, London NW1; Beyond Borders The Point, Eastleigh, Southampton. 2010 Drawing Open One Church Street Gallery, Great Missenden, Bucks; ArtsDepot Open ArtsDepot, London N12; ArtWorks Open ArtWorks Project Space, London E17. 2009 London Group Open Menier Gallery, London SE1; Human Nature The Muse at 269, London W11; At Play South Hill Park, Ringmead, Berkshire. 2008 ArtSway Open ArtSway, Sway, Hampshire; Restricted View Stables Gallery, London NW2; About Town Toilet Gallery, Kingston Upon Thames
Education
2015 MA Printmaking Royal College of Art (Dissertation distinction; Permanent Collection Purchase Award) 2007 BA(Hons) Textiles Goldsmiths College, University of London (Dissertation distinction; Recognition of Excellence BA Student Award Scheme Prize) 2004 BTEC Foundation Richmond Adult Community College (BTEC Outstanding Achievement Award)
Presentations
2022 Public Tour of selected artworks, Wells Cathedral (Wells Art Contemporary) 2021 Images in the Making, Winchester School of Art. 2019 Beyond UK High Altitude Annual Conference. 2018 ReThinking Space Laser Lab at Central Saint Martins. Stargazing Weekend Allenheads Contemporary Arts, Northumberland. 2017Laboratory of Dark Matters INTERACT Symposium Institute of Physics
Residencies
2021 Transient Online www.transienttt.co.uk 2019 Lizard Point Mayes Creative + Lumen, Cornwall. Continuum Allenheads Contemporary Arts, Northumberland. Hackney Historic Buildings Trust St. Augustines Tower, Hackney 2018 Studio4 Chisenhale Art Place, London. Beyond Allenheads Contemporary Arts, Northumberland. Dark Skies Grizedale Forest, Cumbria
Workshops – DIY Cloud Chamber
2021 Images in the Making Winchester School of Art. 2018 Stargazing Weekend Allenheads Contemporary Arts, Northumberland. Residency public engagement Chisenhale Art Place, London. 2017 Laboratory of Dark matters Cleveland Mining Museum and Guest Projects, London
