Sue Blandford

The subject matter and it’s context that Sue is attracted to is frequently subconscious. It often exists in a Liminal space.
A poetic juxtaposition, something displaced or discarded. It’s otherness revealed through fleeting transformative light, or the nocturnal. The objects that attract her are imbued with their practical uses as well as their evocation.
The magic in the mundane that gets passed by. She looks for beauty but often finds it glowing in the dark or uneasy.
Actual figures are rare in her paintings, perhaps a silhouette on a tent wall. She prefers to use objects that infer a human presence or absence.
She has often felt herself to be occupying an ‘in-between’ place growing up, a mixed race heritage being part of this.
Her subject matter reflects the spaces between the city and nature. Small man made objects or structures taking a space and resonating amongst the elemental.

The writer and art historian Jennifer Vuglar picks up on her themes by saying ‘There is nowhere settled and stable, the places of possible habitation are transitory, too fragile to be a home. Even the vegetation is of the edgelands. But the paintings remind us that these places are also places of survival, of fragile resistance, of belief. The gl...

Norwich School of Art B.A. Hons

SUE BLANDFORD
2026
Fresh Art Fair, Alexander Palace, with Combe Gallery

2025
Combe Gallery, Devon
Rise Art

2024
Rise Art: Paintings sold to private collections in the USA and Europe

2023
Rise Art + KAZoART Gallery
The Spitalfields Town House, London
Lewes Art Wave

2022
‘The Space Between’, The Graham Hunter Gallery, London
Houghton Hall, Contemporary and Country
Snape Maltings Gallery, Suffolk
‘River’s Edge’, The Ballroom Gallery, Aldeburgh Festival, Contemporary and Country.

2021
- ING Discerning Eye Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London
- Snape Maltings Gallery, Suffolk
- Chappel Galleries solo exhibition

2018 Solo exhibition: Glasshouses & Daydreams, Viva, London

2017 Cavaliero Finn, London

2016
- Beauty in the everyday, Cavaliero Finn, London
- Cavaliero Finn, Open Door, London

2015
- ‘Time and tides’, The Hide Gallery, London
- Dulwich Arts Festival, London

2014
- The Dairy Gallery, Londonart
- South London Women Artists, London
- Dulwich Arts Festival, London

2013
- ‘Swimming against the tide’, The Hide Gallery, London
- ‘Up the tempo’, Londonart
- Solo exhibition, Romeo Jones, London

2012
- Solo Show, ‘Winter’s Edge’, Norwich
- Lambeth Open, London

2011
- Annie...