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SUSAN MOXLEY: THE FEMALE FORM- A CELEBRATION
17th Feb 10
EXHIBITION PRESS RELEASE:
SUSAN MOXLEY: THE FEMALE FORM - CELEBRATING WOMEN
The North Wall Arts Centre, South Parade Oxford OX2 7NN
01865 319 450
Monday 22nd February- Friday 13th March
Private view: Sunday 21st February 11am-1pm
Some of art history’s most famous portraits of women are painted almost exclusively, by men. Susan Moxley’s thought provoking exhibition showing at The North Wall Arts Centre brings a fresh approach to portraiture, from an entirely female view point.
’It is not my intention to follow a feminist tradition’, she says of her work, ’rather to paint women, both specific and general from a female perspective’
’The portraits are of women who live or work in Oxford or are connected to me in some way – each has an individual story. The success of the portrait lies in the quality of the paint, the resemblance to the sitter, but most importantly to reveal something of the sitters ’soul’ essence, or character’
Susan’s new work- portraits which hang side by side forming one huge painting of 100 women- is asking the viewer to look past the group and seek the individual, with her own space and story- to search beyond the skin and flesh tone (indeed, the portraits are painted in black and white) and seek out her subjects’ identity, experiences, and relationships and how these unseen elements inform a portrait.
Half way through preparing for this exhibition, Susan was diagnosed with breast cancer. Compelled to incorporate this major, life-changing experience into an entirely new body of work, she began a series of bold, graphic, unemotional yet sensual prints, which hang alongside the portraits, telling her own story. She also came to a harrowing realisation about her 100 sitters, with the portraits themselves being a stark illustration of the statistics. ’One in nine women in Britain are suffering from breast cancer,’ Susan explains,’ so ten of the women in the paintings have experienced it’.
Originally from South Africa, Susan Moxley is now based in Oxford, and has been exhibiting in Oxford, London and beyond for the last ten years. A versatile artist working in a variety of media, she has also had her work published on book covers, magazines and in children’s books, and has completed major public projects, notably a commemorative stained glass window for Humphrey Carpenter as well as for Reading University Museum of English Rural Life, and for SS Philip and James Primary School.
Susan will be appearing on BBC Radio Oxford on 17th Feb at 3pm, to talk about her exhibition
SUSAN MOXLEY: THE FEMALE FORM - CELEBRATING WOMEN
The North Wall Arts Centre, South Parade Oxford OX2 7NN
01865 319 450
Monday 22nd February- Friday 13th March
Private view: Sunday 21st February 11am-1pm
Some of art history’s most famous portraits of women are painted almost exclusively, by men. Susan Moxley’s thought provoking exhibition showing at The North Wall Arts Centre brings a fresh approach to portraiture, from an entirely female view point.
’It is not my intention to follow a feminist tradition’, she says of her work, ’rather to paint women, both specific and general from a female perspective’
’The portraits are of women who live or work in Oxford or are connected to me in some way – each has an individual story. The success of the portrait lies in the quality of the paint, the resemblance to the sitter, but most importantly to reveal something of the sitters ’soul’ essence, or character’
Susan’s new work- portraits which hang side by side forming one huge painting of 100 women- is asking the viewer to look past the group and seek the individual, with her own space and story- to search beyond the skin and flesh tone (indeed, the portraits are painted in black and white) and seek out her subjects’ identity, experiences, and relationships and how these unseen elements inform a portrait.
Half way through preparing for this exhibition, Susan was diagnosed with breast cancer. Compelled to incorporate this major, life-changing experience into an entirely new body of work, she began a series of bold, graphic, unemotional yet sensual prints, which hang alongside the portraits, telling her own story. She also came to a harrowing realisation about her 100 sitters, with the portraits themselves being a stark illustration of the statistics. ’One in nine women in Britain are suffering from breast cancer,’ Susan explains,’ so ten of the women in the paintings have experienced it’.
Originally from South Africa, Susan Moxley is now based in Oxford, and has been exhibiting in Oxford, London and beyond for the last ten years. A versatile artist working in a variety of media, she has also had her work published on book covers, magazines and in children’s books, and has completed major public projects, notably a commemorative stained glass window for Humphrey Carpenter as well as for Reading University Museum of English Rural Life, and for SS Philip and James Primary School.
Susan will be appearing on BBC Radio Oxford on 17th Feb at 3pm, to talk about her exhibition