Meet The Artist
Sue Corr
Printmaking is a process that allows me the freedom to be completely experimental with my visual language and this feeds the rest of my artistic practice. I enjoy the calm, meditative rhythm and surprises that print brings.
I have come to printmaking primarily through the route of safer etching, this means abandoning the more toxic traditional form of printing using nitric acid and solvents for the safer options using acrylic media and lower risk etching substances to produce prints.
I have a scattergun approach to print embracing various processes and techniques to reach my destination.
Plates and prints are created using collagraph, photopolymer, etching, drypoint and screenprint. I experiment with various permutations of embossing, intaglio, pronto and use chine colle on Chinese rice paper and selected Japanese papers chosen for their transparency. When the plates incorporate a degree of both relief and intaglio I like to use the viscosity inking process.
My work is about space, light and layers, engaging with the notions of solitude, isolation and fragility. Most of my imagery is inspired by snow and ice and my strong connection with Quebec.
Sue Corr CV January 2012
Selected Exhibitions since 2008
2011/12 Christmas Exhibition, Glasgow Print Gallery
2011/12 - ‘tinta es hermosa amiga / ink is a wonderful friend’
Palacio de Bellas Artes à Manizales, Colombia.
2011 ‘Fold’, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, Australia.
2011 International Experimental Engraving Biennial, Romania, online
www.experimentalproject.ro
2010 'A Book About Death' The Tabernacle, Moma, Machynlleth, Wales
2010 'Tunnocked' Glasgow Print Gallery, Scotland
2010 26th Salon de L'Estampe Contemporaine, Espace Renoir, Paris
2010 Group exhibition, Oriel Clwyd, Mold, Wales
2009/10 Winter Show, Left Bank Gallery, Tarland, Scotland
2009 Group exhibition Oriel Pendeitsh, Caernarfon
2009 Lessedra 8th World Art Print Annual - Mini Print 2009,Bulgaria,
2009 'Printmakingonline' @ 3 Albion Place LSI, Leeds (selected)
2008 Helfa Gelf, invited artist, Venue Cymru, North Wales
2008 Soulscape, International Collective Exhibition, Engramme, Quebec
2008 Engramme, Quebec City, Canada
2008 Horsley Printmakers, (Invited) Biscuit Factory, Newcastle Upon Tyne
Projects and Residencies since 2009
2012 Developing Graphite Screenprint workshops with Kevin McGarry
2011 Book project for exhibition in Colombia
2011 Book project with M. Samson,Quebec and Wah Wing Chan, Montreal
2011 Quebec residency and collaboration with Madeleine Samson
2010/11 Dance/Visual Art collaboration with Emma Park's 'Black Swan Dance Theatre' UK Theatre School, Glasgow
2010 Participant in Circle of Print, an international group print extravaganza/exchange intending to become an exhibition at the next Impact Conference in Australia 2011
2010/11 'Fragments" Printmaking piece to tour on exhibiton with Madeleine Samson (Quebec) and Goedele Peeters (Antwerp)
2010 Experimental Print 'The Tea Salon'
2009 Masterclass and Open Studio for Betws arts festival
2009 Assistant to Engramme Member, Madeleine Samson at Frans Masereel
Print Centre, Belgium
2009 Visiting artist Glasgow Print Studio 26.01.09-27.02.09
Membership Affiliation
Glasgow Print Studio
Engramme, Quebec City
Lecturing
2006/07 Part time Lecturer in printmaking and painting, Chester University
Competitions, prizes and awards
2008 3 month international Print Residency, Cooperative Meduse, Quebec
City, Canada
2006 Project Grant Award, Arts council of Wales, Conwy
2004 Professional Development Award, Arts Council of Wales, Conwy
2004 Conwy Council New Business Start up grant, Conwy Council, Conwy
Publications/In Print/on the radio
2009 Featured in Snowdonia National Park annual tourist magazine
2008 Two page article in Printmaking Today “Getting To Know Snow”
Winter 2008
2008 Interviewed for ckia Radio Basse-Ville Quebec
2008 Contributor to ‘La Morsure’ Engramme Print Publication
2008 Print Image featured in Cultural Enterprise Calendar
2007 Contributor to Printmaking Today article 'Instant Carbon Transfer'
Summer 2007
Education
2001-2003 MA Fine Art, Painting, Chester University
2000-2001 Certificate of Advanced Studies in Fine Art (Post Graduate
course) Chester University
1997-1998 PGCE Year One, Llandrillo Technical College, North Wales
1992.1995 BA (Hons) Fine Art, Sculpture, Surrey College of Art and Design
In 2009 I attended Wrexham print symposium and IMPACT 2009 Print Conference in Bristol