Susie Marcroft

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.

Bachelor of Visual Art Honours, Southern Cross University

Solo Exhibition
'Strange Little Attractors', NRCG Ballina (October 2015)

Selected Group Exhibitions
Jun 2017 'Sharehouse', Byron School of Art – Project Space, Mullumbimby
Jul 2016 'A Touch of Whimsy', Bankhouse Originals, Mallanganee, Northern NSW
Jul 2015 'Creaturely Feelings', Dax Centre, Melbourne University
Jun 2015 Toorak Village Sculpture Prize
Nov 2014 Arts Northern Rivers, Travelling Popup Exhibition (Kyogle)
Dec 2013 Vice Chancellor’s Exhibition, SCU
Nov 2013 Women’s Work(s), The Channon Gallery, The Channon

Group Exhibitions
Nov 2014 'Transit' Honours Exhibition, SCU
Oct 2014 Coraki Art Prize, Coraki, Northern NSW
Oct 2013 'Transit' Gallery One29, SCU
Oct 2013 'A Book About Death', Tweed Regional Gallery, Murwillumbah
May 2013 'Just Between Us', Collaborative Exhibition, SCU Gallery One29
Oct 2011 Coraki Art Prize, Coraki, Northern NSW
Sep 2011 'Heresay', Next Gallery, Lismore
Mar 2009 Kings Christian College Art Exhibition, Reedy Creek, Gold Coast
Jul 2007 Robina Rotary Art Show, Gold Coast.
Feb 2009 Chapman & Bailey Artworkers Award Exhibition Metro Arts, Brisbane
Dec 2008 Border Art Prize, Tweed Regional Gallery
Oct 2008 100 Year Suffragette Commemorativ...