Sue Rosalind Vesely
Qualifications:
BAHons in Fine Art, Heart of England University, UK
MA in painting Royal College of Art,UK
Titles:
Master of Arts from the Royal College of Art, London
Website:
www.suevesely.com
Instagram:
Sue_vesely_artist_australia
Full Member of MSWPS
Artist Statement:
My paintings are an attempt to connect to the viewer at a personal level.
Our minds work in similar ways in their fundamental functions.
When we remember a visual thing, we remember a simplified non-specific version of its appearance. This memory is a generic symbol for the object, there may be details but it is still a cut down version of nature, like the spoken word, which is always generic in describing objects.
I use remembered information to make invented and abstracted pictures of people and spaces that the viewers recognise as being within their own experience.
When viewers see this version of appearances, the images feel familiar, in the way that a dream is familiar, and they feel that the work somehow includes them or echoes a memory of their own.
Sue Rosalind Vesely June 2022
Biography:
Solo Exhibitions – Selected
2022 ‘We Are Gods’, Yarra Sculpture Gallery Melbourne
2021 ‘Jewellery of the Gods’, West End Art Space , Melbourne
2020 ‘Lighthouse’, West End art Space, Melbourne
2019 ‘Emotion in Space’, west End Art Space, Melbourne
Invitation and Group Exhibitions:
2022 ‘Connecting Dots’, Galleria Azur, Berlin
2022 ‘Citere’, Galleria Azur, Berlin
2022 ‘Omnia Award Exhibition’, Melbourne
2020 ‘Layers of Time’, West End Art Space , Melbourne
2020 ‘Reconnected’ Museum of Art and Culture, Lake Macquarie
Awards:
2022 Dobell Lions Festival Award, First Prize for Figurative Painting
2019 Yarra Sculpture Gallery Exhibition Award
Collections:
City of Birmingham Collection, Birmingham UK
City of Wolverhampton Collection, Wolverhampton, UK
Unilever Collection, London
Royal College of Art Collection, London
Municipal Collection, Lingen Ems, Germany
East Staffordshire BC, Burton, UK
Private Collections Worldwide – Australia, Africa, Britain, Canada, France, Norway, Switzerland, USA
