Sue Pickering - printmaker
Collectors and clutter busters:
After nearly fifteen years working from the same, shared studio I have collected an embarrassment of etching plates, lino blocks, off-cut pieces of good printing paper that need to be used, drawers full of prints, and a midden of unresolved work and ideas that I might want to pursue sometime. I occupy far more than my share of the space. I’m not a very good clutter-buster, but sometimes I go through, ripping things up and filling the recycling bin with these traces of ideas, of enthusiasms, of disappointments.
I am now experimenting with the possibilities of reusing some of my plates and blocks. Printmaking lends itself so well to possibilities of layering:- of imagery and colours, of ideas and memories, of people, places and events. This is my current preoccupation. These two prints are part of this exploration.
Sue Pickering
July 2009
Susan Pickering is a musician as well as an artist. She studied art at the School of Art, University of Tasmania, qualifying with a Master of Fine Arts and Design. She was awarded the University Medal in Fine Arts 1991, the Rena Ellen Jones Memorial Print Award (in 1997 and 1999), the Geelong Print Prize and a Goddard Sapin-Jaloustre Scholarship 1999. She has studied in Paris. She has participated in numerous exhibitions in public and private galleries around Australia. Her work is held in many public and private collections around Australia and in private collections in Europe and the USA.
