Susan Stevenson

Landscape is a recurring element in my work. Whether examining Australia’s colonial history, climate change or cultural conflict, the depiction of landscape has underpinned my practice. Often demanding a dual reading of the work, it has taken different forms over the years.

Increasingly abstract and minimal, my current work can be read as landscape or interior space. Fields of colour and texture are scarred by human gesture; fractures can be read as the flaws in an interior wall or an aerial view of a crumbling edifice. With both readings there is a sense of impermanence and transience.