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Susan Wood
Susan Wood
1953 - 2018
Susan Wood was born in Saint John, N.B. and grew up in Amherst, N.S. She attended Mount Allison University (BFA 1976), participated in the Banff Winter Studio Program (1976-1977) and received an MFA from The University of Calgary in 1981. Susan lived in St. John’s, Newfoundland (1983-1989) where she was a founding member of the Eastern Edge Gallery, taught at Memorial University Extension Arts and continued her studio practice.
Susan moved to Halifax in 1989 and began teaching at NSCAD University in 1990. She participated in numerous group exhibitions across Canada and in Finland, Germany, Scotland and Iceland, and also had a number of solo exhibitions including her nationally touring Devil’s Purse, Dress Drawings and Taxonomies. A major exhibition titled “Earth Skins: Three Decades of Drawings by Susan Wood” was curated in 2010 by Susan Gibson Garvey, with the Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery, and Owens Art Gallery.
Susan Wood was a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts and was a recipient of grant awards from the Canada Council, the Newfoundland and Labrador Arts Council and the Nova Scotia Arts Council. Her work is represented in private, corporate and public collections across Canada, UK and in the USA.
"My primary studio practice is drawing. I have always been intrigued by its immediacy, the often very direct process of a mind and hand giving form to a perceived object/figure, an idea, a passing thought or emotion. I work with watercolour, pen and ink on mixed media collages that often include Japanese papers (washi), hand made paper as well as found bits of text and older drawings torn and recycled. I’m interested in the ephemeral, decay; change through time and the imagery I use can often be read as metaphorical."
Susan Wood was born in Saint John, N.B. and grew up in Amherst, N.S. She attended Mount Allison University (BFA 1976), participated in the Banff Winter Studio Program (1976-1977) and received an MFA from The University of Calgary in 1981. Susan lived in St. John’s, Newfoundland (1983-1989) where she was a founding member of the Eastern Edge Gallery, taught at Memorial University Extension Arts and continued her studio practice.
Susan moved to Halifax in 1989 and began teaching at NSCAD University in 1990. She participated in numerous group exhibitions across Canada and in Finland, Germany, Scotland and Iceland, and also had a number of solo exhibitions including her nationally touring Devil’s Purse, Dress Drawings and Taxonomies. A major exhibition titled “Earth Skins: Three Decades of Drawings by Susan Wood” was curated in 2010 by Susan Gibson Garvey, with the Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery, and Owens Art Gallery.
Susan Wood was a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts and was a recipient of grant awards from the Canada Council, the Newfoundland and Labrador Arts Council and the Nova Scotia Arts Council. Her work is represented in private, corporate and public collections across Canada, UK and in the USA.
"My primary studio practice is drawing. I have always been intrigued by its immediacy, the often very direct process of a mind and hand giving form to a perceived object/figure, an idea, a passing thought or emotion. I work with watercolour, pen and ink on mixed media collages that often include Japanese papers (washi), hand made paper as well as found bits of text and older drawings torn and recycled. I’m interested in the ephemeral, decay; change through time and the imagery I use can often be read as metaphorical."