Susan Rosenberg

Light is the inspiration and subject matter of my practice. For many years I have explored the themes and variations of slices of 3D digital scans of bodies and objects. In their latest incarnation this base material is transformed into translucent and luminescent Perspex shapes. Lit by LEDs, the shapes float” on a surface, beautiful, elegant and transcendent. They are reminiscent of satellite images of cities at night, or aquatic life, or microscopic biological structures of the cells of plants or bones. They imply a space that is both vast and exterior or intimate and interior, in the mind. The colour varies in its combinations, while the works are meditative, mesmerising and intriguing. Lightmotif combines new technology, both digital and analogue, and the age-old artistic tools of colour, line and of course, light.
I also love traditional paint and pastel, which, combined with contemporary technology leads me to new ways of thinking and seeing. I want my paintings to convey beauty, power, joy and exhilaration, and wit. My images should be in your mind’s eye going to sleep at night and waking in the morning.
I was born in South Africa. I studied there and in the USA, at the University of Wisconsin, under the auspices of the Fu...

MA in Fine Art, Printmaking and Drawing, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, USA
BAFA University of KwaZulu Natal, South Africa

• 2013 Millinery Works Gallery, Islington, London, ”Peripheral Visions”
• 2010 Millinery Works Gallery, Islington, London “Water”
• 2008 Millinery Works Gallery, Islington, London “Altitude”
• 2006 Millinery Works Gallery, Islington, London “Then and Now”
• 2004 Millinery Works Gallery, Islington, London “Still, Life”
• 2001 Millinery Works Gallery, Islington, London “Mirages”
• 2000 Curwen Gallery, London “Prophets, Muses, Graces”
• 1998 Millinery Works Gallery, Islington, London “Moments of Transition”
• 1992 Milton Gallery, St Paul’s School, London “Prints and Drawings”
• 1992 Coffee Gallery, Museum Street, London “Fish Parade”
• 1989 Christ Church Picture Gallery, Oxford “Letters From Home”
• 1987 “Paperworks”, National Gallery, Cape Town “Monument to South Africa”
• 1987 “Paperworks”, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg “Monument to South Africa”