Susannah Collins

Visual Artist, Naarm
Susannah Collins is a visual artist that lives and works in Naarm Melbourne, Australia, on the unceded lands of the Wurundjeri and Boon Wurrung people of the Kulin Nation. She is an exhibiting and commissioned artist, that has shown work in solo, collaborative and group shows. Susannah has also coordinated and led art workshops and exhibitions at the community level. She is currently undertaking a Master of Fine Art at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia.
 
Focusing on oil painting and drawing to create figurative expressions of the world around her, Susannah Collins’ practice is fluid, shifting between incidental observational reflections of everyday life and a more formal portrayal of staged interior and still-life scenes. Influenced by traditions within the Still Life genre, such as Memento Mori, the work responds to the dialogue between disarray and harmony within her own domestic settings and familiar environments to engage ephemerality, liminality and beauty within a contemporary context. 

EDUCATION:

2012 – 2016 Bachelor of Fine Art (Film and Television), Victorian College of the Arts
2022- Present Master of Fine Art, RMIT

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

2022 – ‘Natural State’ Solo Exhibition, Red Gallery, Fitzroy North. VIC
 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

2023 – ‘Gold’, TAM Group Exhibition, The Long Gallery, Montsalvat Art Centre, Eltham, VIC

2023 – ‘Eltham Art Show’, Eltham Community and Reception Centre, Eltham, VIC

2023 – ‘Blue and White’, Project Gallery 90, Paddington, NSW. Curated by Kate Hopkinson-Pointer.

2023 – ‘Feed the Soul’, NERAM, Armidale, NSW

2023 – ‘Shucked’, Project Gallery 90, Paddington, NSW. Curated by Kate Hopkinson-Pointer.

2023 – ‘International Melbourne Flower and Garden Show Exhibition’, TAM Group Exhibition, Royal Exhibition Building, VIC

2022 – ‘Three Women’ Exhibition with Miranda Mitchell and Samantha Tidbeck, Project Gallery 90, Paddington, NSW. Curated by Kate Hopkinson-Pointer.

‘2022 – ‘Natures Story’, TAM group exhibition, The Barn Gallery, Montsalvat Art Centre, Eltham, VIC.

2022 – ‘Community and Connection’ Exhibition Leader / Co-ordinator/Exhibiting Artist, Loft 256 Gallery, Ivanhoe, VIC.

2022 –‘The Artistry of Books’ – TAM Group Exhibition, Eltham Library Community Gallery, Eltham, VIC

2022 – ‘Small Works Art Prize’, Brunswick Street Gallery, Fitzroy, VIC

2022 – ‘Linden Postcard Show’, Linden New Art, St Kilda, VIC

2022 – ‘International Melbourne Flower and Garden Show Exhibition’, TAM Group Exhibition, Royal Exhibition Building, VIC

2021 – ‘Small Works Art Prize’, Brunswick Street Gallery, Fitzroy, VIC

2021 – ‘Fifty Squared Art Prize’, Brunswick Street Gallery, Fitzroy, VIC

2021 – ‘Linden Postcard Show’, Linden New Art, St Kilda, VIC
 

WORKSHOPS:

2022 – ‘Still Life Fundamentals’, Banyule City Council Residency Program, Ivanhoe, VIC