Susan Laughton

Susan Laughton graduated with a BA Hons Art & Design (First) in 2002 after working in architecture for twelve years. Her work is exhibited regularly in the UK and is held in private and corporate collections in the UK, Europe, the US, Singapore and Australia. It has been selected for the Royal West Academy Drawn exhibition, the Royal Scottish Academy Annual exhibition and Fully Awake 5:6 at the Freelands Foundation, London.. She has been professional artist since 2006 and currently works from Vale Artists Studios in Cheshire.
"The landscape is my starting point, not as a picturesque view, but as a space travelled through and experienced often on the edges of the urban and the rural. It is a source of man made and natural structures, surfaces and colours from which I construct my own pared down responses. Man made structures in particular impose their presence against the sky: telegraph poles, fences, power lines or an isolated building...structures that create tension within space and mark the passage of time. My approach is reductive: removing superfluous elements, concentrating on the physicality of edges and boundaries often in contrast to the veiled, shifting white light of the north.

I make drawings of remembered details seen...

BA (Hons) Art & Design (First Class) 2002

solo exhibitions
2019 Balancing Act, &Gallery, Edinburgh
Safekeeping, Staithes Studios, North Yorkshire
2018 Conscious Perception, The Stratford Gallery
2016 Cold Press Gallery, Holt, Norfolk
2015 Travelling Light, Quercus Gallery, Bath
2011 Still Here at the Cornerhouse greenroom, Manchester
2010 Measured Space at Duckett and Jeffreys Gallery, North Yorkshire
2009 Sightlines at Salford Museum & Art Gallery including curation of works from Salford’s permanent collection
2008 Howarth Museum, & Art Gallery, Lancashire

selected group exhibitions
2020 The Royal Scottish Academy Annual Exhibition, Edinburgh
2019 Fully Awake 5:6, The Freelands Foundation, London
2015 The Royal West of England Academy: Drawn, Bristol
2011 Stockport Contemporary Open
2009 Art of Ideas II, Arts Council/Arts & Business exhibition, Birmingham

awards
2006 Arts Council England Grant for new work.

commissions and collections
Apollo Global Managment, New York, London & Singapore
FINRA, Washington DC
Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Florida
Apollo Global Management, London
Bessemer Trust, San Diego
The Madison Club, California
Large painting for a house in Bath, UK.
Two paintings RIBA House of the Year, Scotland

group exhibitions
2024 The ...