'Cutely Fierce and Dangerous’ Sculpture

Susie Rodgers-Marcroft lives in the Goldfields of Victoria. Her art practice is primarily sculptural using clay as a medium, however, she also incorporates painting, printmaking, drawing, and new media into her practice where appropriate. Situated in post-humanist theories, human-animal studies, empathy and notions of 'expanded' consciousness, Susie's conceptual ceramic process explores the 'affective', transformational qualities of an art object. Her interspecies 'merges' of human and non-human species emerge from the studio simultaneously endearing and repelling. For Susie, there is a 'moment of conception' when her strange little creatures start 'speaking' to her ... and so begins her entangled empathy with them. She encourages a 'felt' viewing of the works that might lead to a deeper contemplation of the contradictions that perplex human-animal relationships and our relationships with all Others.