Susan Kinley

phone: 01326 376516 Links: www.movingonarts.info/artists
web: www.susankinley.co.uk www.axisweb.org www.craftscouncil.org.uk
Contact: Uplands 23 Trevellan Rd Mylor Bridge Falmouth TR11 5NE
 

Title: Dewglass
A wall mounted installation of 25 glass panels
with laminated print and japanese paper
200cm x 120cm

Gate
Hanging panel with printed glass strips,
copper mesh, silk, dyes and monofilament
90cm x 55cm
Water Margins
Hanging panel with printed glass inlaid shapes,
copper mesh, silk, dyes and monofilament
100cm x 50cm

I work with mixed media, including glass, silk, metal meshes and Japanese paper. These elements are layered with fragments of printed transparent imagery to build panels and installations, in which I explore transitional qualities of light. Initial ideas are driven by process, the physicality of the material I use, often made in response to particular places.

Selected solo exhibitions
2001 Layering Light – Japanese Foundation, London
1998 Panels & Constructions – Takenaka Building, Osaka, Japan
1991 Constructions – Plymouth Arts Centre
1986 Beneath the Surface – Axiom Gallery, Cheltenham
Selected group exhibitions
2005 NSA Easter Show – Thompson’s The City Gallery, London
2004 Elemental Insight – Met Office, Exeter (and touring)
2002 Construction – Newlyn Gallery
2000 Japanese Connections – Nagoya University, Japan
2000 Everyone’s a winner – Bovey Tracey Devon – Award winning makers (and touring)
1998 Silk & Glass Panels – Victoria & Albert Museum, London.
Commissions
2005 Laminated glass window & wall panels for Blackberry Hill Hospital, Bristol.
2001 Ten printed glass panels for bus shelters – the Moor, Falmouth, Cornwall
Awards
2004 Research grant – Arts Council, England – South West
2000 Year of the Artist – Arts Council, England – South West
Residencies
2000 Royal Cornwall hospital, Truro, Cornwall
1998 Takenaka Corporation, Osaka, Japan