About
London-based artist, curator and educator, Sue Withers studied Fine Art at Leeds Polytechnic and Wimbledon School of Art, and completed a Professional Doctorate in Fine Art at the University of East London in 2021.
Always keen to collaborate she co-founded Proof, an artist-run curatorial project dedicated to artists’ multiples, and the use of domestic and ‘non-gallery’ spaces in 1998. More recent co-curated exhibitions include Between Walls at Safehouse, London (2020) Research Space (2019) and “Loving Care” (2021) at the Way Out East Gallery, London, and Toil & Trouble: How We Find Out Who We Are (2022) at A.P.T, London.
She holds several teaching qualifications, and has been working in Further & Higher Education for more than twenty years.
Spanning printmaking, photography, video and sculpture, her work explores the construction of female identity through consumerism; the pursuit of perfection, acceptance or visibility through the acquisition of possessions. It examines the influence of class and the dangerous or transgressive qualities of that which is often considered frivolous: colour and fashion.