Suzanne Moxhay, Woods, 2022
Photopolymer gravure with chine collé and hand-colouring, edition of 2 A/P’s, 48 x 39.5cm (unframed)
Suzanne Moxhay’s complex images use archival or newly-taken photographs as their starting point. Combining a variety of low and high-tech techniques, her digital photomontages and etchings explore interior and exterior spaces that, in the artist’s words, ‘feel as though they have broken down and perhaps been re-claimed’.
Suzanne’s practice is informed by the theatre of film-making, and strong light sources play a key role in creating drama. New life is breathed into deserted scenes by encroaching foliage or startled birds; often an uneasy sense of stillness prevails. ‘Woods’ is part of a new series of works that feature chine collé (an intricate Japanese collage technique) and watercolour on selected areas of the surface. Suzanne describes the scene as ‘a fictional place which is informed by my interest in horror films and the uncanny. It depicts the dark edgeland around a suburban neighbourhood. The point of view suggests an establishing shot with a sense of narrative potential’.
Despite her focus upon digital techniques, Suzanne’s images retain a painterly quality achieved through layering and manipulation of textures. The resulting works fuse the real with the imagined, drawing the viewer into spaces that feel intimate and often a little unsettling.
Suzanne studied at Chelsea College of Art and The Royal Academy Schools, graduating in 2007. She has exhibited widely, both nationally and internationally since 2002 and her work is held in many significant public and private collections including the University of the Arts Collection, The Royal Academy of Arts, The Cooper Union New York, and Oxford University. She has featured in numerous publications including The Guardian, The FT, A-N Magazine and Art World Magazine and has been profiled and interviewed on the BBC Culture Show. Oliver Projects presented Suzanne’s work at the Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair in 2021. She lives and works in south east London.
Photopolymer gravure with chine collé and hand-colouring, edition of 2 A/P’s, 48 x 39.5cm (unframed)
Suzanne Moxhay’s complex images use archival or newly-taken photographs as their starting point. Combining a variety of low and high-tech techniques, her digital photomontages and etchings explore interior and exterior spaces that, in the artist’s words, ‘feel as though they have broken down and perhaps been re-claimed’.
Suzanne’s practice is informed by the theatre of film-making, and strong light sources play a key role in creating drama. New life is breathed into deserted scenes by encroaching foliage or startled birds; often an uneasy sense of stillness prevails. ‘Woods’ is part of a new series of works that feature chine collé (an intricate Japanese collage technique) and watercolour on selected areas of the surface. Suzanne describes the scene as ‘a fictional place which is informed by my interest in horror films and the uncanny. It depicts the dark edgeland around a suburban neighbourhood. The point of view suggests an establishing shot with a sense of narrative potential’.
Despite her focus upon digital techniques, Suzanne’s images retain a painterly quality achieved through layering and manipulation of textures. The resulting works fuse the real with the imagined, drawing the viewer into spaces that feel intimate and often a little unsettling.
Suzanne studied at Chelsea College of Art and The Royal Academy Schools, graduating in 2007. She has exhibited widely, both nationally and internationally since 2002 and her work is held in many significant public and private collections including the University of the Arts Collection, The Royal Academy of Arts, The Cooper Union New York, and Oxford University. She has featured in numerous publications including The Guardian, The FT, A-N Magazine and Art World Magazine and has been profiled and interviewed on the BBC Culture Show. Oliver Projects presented Suzanne’s work at the Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair in 2021. She lives and works in south east London.
Photopolymer gravure with chine collé and hand-colouring, edition of 2 A/P’s, 48 x 39.5cm (unframed)
Suzanne Moxhay’s complex images use archival or newly-taken photographs as their starting point. Combining a variety of low and high-tech techniques, her digital photomontages and etchings explore interior and exterior spaces that, in the artist’s words, ‘feel as though they have broken down and perhaps been re-claimed’.
Suzanne’s practice is informed by the theatre of film-making, and strong light sources play a key role in creating drama. New life is breathed into deserted scenes by encroaching foliage or startled birds; often an uneasy sense of stillness prevails. ‘Woods’ is part of a new series of works that feature chine collé (an intricate Japanese collage technique) and watercolour on selected areas of the surface. Suzanne describes the scene as ‘a fictional place which is informed by my interest in horror films and the uncanny. It depicts the dark edgeland around a suburban neighbourhood. The point of view suggests an establishing shot with a sense of narrative potential’.
Despite her focus upon digital techniques, Suzanne’s images retain a painterly quality achieved through layering and manipulation of textures. The resulting works fuse the real with the imagined, drawing the viewer into spaces that feel intimate and often a little unsettling.
Suzanne studied at Chelsea College of Art and The Royal Academy Schools, graduating in 2007. She has exhibited widely, both nationally and internationally since 2002 and her work is held in many significant public and private collections including the University of the Arts Collection, The Royal Academy of Arts, The Cooper Union New York, and Oxford University. She has featured in numerous publications including The Guardian, The FT, A-N Magazine and Art World Magazine and has been profiled and interviewed on the BBC Culture Show. Oliver Projects presented Suzanne’s work at the Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair in 2021. She lives and works in south east London.
