Susan Connolly makes paintings and large-scale installations. Her work explores the notion of uncertainty in painting and its ability to remain relevant in our digital age. The work references the history of abstract art and reflects on and challenges the medium itself.
ARTIST BIO
Susan Connolly is an artist based in Belfast. She holds a practice based PhD(2018) and an MFA(2002) from Belfast School of Art and a first class hons Masters from NCAD(2013). Connolly has exhibited extensively on the island of Ireland with recent commissioned work exhibited at the FE McWilliam Gallery(2020), the Golden Thread Gallery (2018), CCA (2018) and the MAC, Belfast(2014). Her work is held in many private and public collections, with the Arts Council of Ireland recently acquiring a major large scale work. Other noteworthy career achievements include receiving funding from the Arts Council of Ireland(2021), Culture Ireland funding to exhibit at Kunsthaus Dalhlem, Berlin(2020), and her selection to particate in the Golden Foundations artist residency programme, New York (2017).
Traces of an Activity 21.10, 2021, Susan Connolly, 17.5x12.5x1.5cm, Acrylic on canvas
Top Left: An installation of shot of Something To Do With Paint, Susan Connolly, The MAC, Belfast, Northern Ireland, in 2014.
An installation of shot of Over+over&over, FE McWilliam Gallery, Banbridge, Acrylic paint, medium gel, steel, sterling board; various dimensions; 2019/2020
Everything & Nothing, Studio, Acrylic paint, medium gel, 2014
Susan Connolly Studio, QSS, Belfast, Northern Ireland, 2021
The idea of painting thus becomes the subject, content, and media all at the same time resulting in artworks that visually bring together traces of the work's process and methods of production.
Traces of an Activity 21.9, 2021, Susan Connolly, 17.5x12.5x1.5cm, Acrylic on canvas
