Susan Bleakley
HIGHER EDUCATION
1995-97: MA Fine Art [Sculpture] Royal College of Art [Thesis: Chora and Space, Distinction]
1992-95: BA[Hons][1st class] Fine Art [Sculpture], Falmouth College of Arts [Thesis: Metaphors of Substance: Art and Alchemy]
1990-92: Foundation Studies, Falmouth College of Arts
SOLO and INTERNATIONAL SHOWS
2021 Circle Contemporary Mixed show
2020 Circle Contemporary mixed show
2019 London Art Fair Circle Contemporary
2019 Circle Contemporary Art Focus
2017 Scarlet Wines paintings and sculpture March 8th till April 8th
2013 'Nobody's Home' video mixed show FAB Gallery University of Alberta Edmonton Canada
2013 'North of Nornal' solo show and residency Gallery B Franfurt(Oder)Germany
2013 'Die Gefasse' mixed show Berlin Germany
2012' Nobodys Home' video National gallery of Canada(Ottawa) medical humanities conference presentation
2012 Arbeiten fur den Ernstfall Work in Case of an Ermergengy, joint installation with Alexandra Karrasch Institut fur Geschichten Letschin, Ortwig Brandenburg Germany
2009 Wie kommit die Kuh aufs Dach,' Against the Divide' installation Brandenburg Berlin Germany
2006 ‘Eighty per cent of bird song is non functional’ installation Plymouth Art Centre
2002 ‘Dressings’ Video installation Brewhouse Phillips Gallery Taunton
2000 ‘Seeing Through Flame’ Solo Installation ZKP Lokovni Salon Celje Slovenia, [Fringe Manifesta 3 European Biennial of Contemporary Art, ‘Borderline Syndrome-Energies of Defence’ Ljubliana, Slovenia.]
2000 ‘Seeing Through Flame’ touring to solo Installation and video projection Varna City Art Gallery, Bulgaria
2000 ‘Remote’ - site specific installation Plovdiv, Bulgaria
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2021 Circle Contemporary mixed shows
2021 Newlyn Society of Artists Past Present Future
2020 Crane Kalman Gallery London
2020 Circle Contemporary London Art Fair
2018 Circle Contemporary Hawksfield Wadebridge2017 Boarders Tremenhere Penzance
2016 RWA Candidate show Bristol
2015 RWA Candidate show Bristol
2015 At the Sharp End of Bluntness Darting Hall Gallery
2015 paintings Crane Kalman Gallery Brompton Rd Knightsbridge London
2015 paintings selected Colour Cube Gallery Bristol
2013 Installation Transitions Newlyn Gallery Penzance Cornwall
2013 'Like/don't like/don't care' mixed show Mile End Art Pavillion, London
2013 'Being at the Edge the Edge of Being' Sculpture and video 'Stone Matter's' Stephen Lawrence Gallery ,University of Greenwich, London
2013 'Hand over Hand Cross pollination' (video)mixed event Fountain Project, Tremenhere Sculpture Garden Penzance Cornwall.
2013 Broken tears Tremenhere Sculpture Gardens Penzance Cornwall
2013 Interior weather video The Dark Rooms helston Cornwall
2013 3 points of contact resendency Exchange Cornwall
2012 Railing against time Video and broken tears New Light on Newlyn Plymouth Museum and Art gallery
2012 'Nobody's Home video Death Anamations confernce event Baltic Gateshead
2012 Hand over hand cross pollination video Site-non-site Kestle Barton Cornwall
2011 Print Exchange Gallery Penzance
2010 'Nobody's Home' video 'Humanities At The Cutting Edge' AMH conference exhibition Peninsla College of Medicine &Dentistry
2010 ' Death Matter's' photographs 'Reality Check' NSA Newlyn Art Gallery Cornwall
2005 ‘Ambiguous by Nature’ conference of the Association for Medical Hummanities, Peninsula Medical School The Knowledge Spa Truro
2004 ‘60 Seconds Of Hope’ video group show PALP
2003 ‘Wish You Were Here’ – touring show of works in suitcases around Cornwall (group show PALP)
2002 ‘Field of Vision’ - site-specific intervention in landscape at Tremenheere, Penzance (group show PALP)
2001 ‘Transitions’ - site-specific installation Newlyn Orion Gallery
2001 ‘Us and Them’ - Axis website exhibition
2001 ‘Cattle Market’ - Gloucester: 2 video shorts
2001 ‘Gods and Monsters’ - Henshaws Art Centre, Knaresborough
2001 ‘Palpitations’ - site-specific show, Old Telephone Exchange, Penzance (group show PALP)
2000 ’Shed’ - site-specific installation Penzance [group show . PALP)
2000 ‘Subverted Suburbia’ - touring to Dick Institute, Kilmarnock,
2000 Public Arts Laboratory - Manchester Museum of Science and Industry
1999 Public Arts Laboratory - John Moores University Liverpool Art School Gallery
1999 Public Arts Laboratory - Globe Gallery Newcastle [Touring 1998 PAL residency]
1999 ‘Subverted Suburbia’ - Gracefield Arts Centre Dumfries - mixed show
1999 ‘Away From Home’ - Bluecoat Gallery Liverpool - group of 4 show
1997 ‘Below Stairs’ - site-specific installation, mixed show, Osterley Park House London
1997 ’Hothouse’ - mixed RCA Sculpture - Royal Botanic Gardens Kew London
1997 MA Degree show Royal College of Art London
1997 ’Spin’ mixed show, Gulbenkian Gallery RCA London
1996 Mixed Show, David Hockney Gallery RCA London
1996 Interim Show RCA London
1980 Exhibition of paintings Dora Holzhandler +Su Dixon Crane Arts London
RESIDENCIES AND AWARDS
2006-14 Special study unit Peninsular Medical School
2005 Arts Council of England small grants award
2004-2007Artist in Residence Royal Cornwall Hospital Truro
2004 Arts Council of England Research and development small grants award
2002 Regional Arts Lottery Programme (RALP)
2001 South West Arts Travel award - research in Albania for PALP
2001 Swingate, PALP
2001 Penwith District Council: PALP
2001 Art 4 All: awarded to PALP
2000 British Council: travel and accommodation Slovenia
1998 Art 4 Everyone – 5 months residency at Liverpool John Moores University Public Art Laboratory/ Tarmac Topmix as Industrial Partner/ Liverpool Design Initiative
PUBLICATIONS AND REVIEWS
2017 Feb Manor Magazine article by Alice Wright
2012Jan Cornwall today article byAlex Wade p48-50
2008 March Cornwall today Postcard from an artist p91
2006 Sept BBC radio Devon and Corwall interview with David Squires Eighty per cent of bird song is non functional
2006 Sept Western Morning News article by Cherry Gordon
2006 Sept Times on line by Alex Wade
2005 Association for Medical Hummanities 2005 3rd annual conference, Metaphors for Practice: the art of healthcare, book of abstracts p83-84
2003 Beside the Wave Book by Tom Cross pp225\6
2002 AN magazine Dec: ‘Best Western’, Article on PALP pp 21
2002 Landscape and Arts summer edition ‘Field of Vision’ review
2002 a-n magazine July reference to, and image from, PAL project with Tarmac Topmix pp22
2002 Art Review (Art Preview) Review of ‘Dressings’
2002 Review of ‘Dressings’ Guardian G2
2001 Catalogue ‘Cattle Market’, mixed video show - Gloucester
2001 Proof - summer issue - review of ’ Palpitations’ by Ed Krema
2000 Artists Newsletter - June - ‘Close Encounters’ review PAL work by Martina Margetts, pp18-19
2000 Artists Newsletter - Feb - ‘Soundings’ review ‘Subverted Suburbia’ by Carol Hogarth, p22
2000 The Independent ‘The Information’ review of PAL, Museum of Science and Industry by Peter Conchie, p15
1999 PAL CD-Rom
1999 Subverted Suburbia Catalogue [The Never Ending Dustpan]
1999 The Guardian ‘The Guide’ - review ‘Away from Home’ by Robert Clark, p9
1998 BAVA Awards [Flames of Ceres] - Internet site
Research Project
‘certainly possibly maybe’ Postgraduate Centre Royal Cornwall Hospital, Truro. Collaboration between medical consultants and artists exploring visual judgements
Project Management
CST ‘Coal Salt Tin’ creative collaborations Site-specific projects Newlyn, Newcastle, Leeds
Future projects
2007-2014
Running Special study units with4th year medical students Peninsular Medical School
Public Work
‘Ambiguous by Nature series’ bought by The Knowledge Spa, Peninsular medical school