Susan Madert
My work explores identity and belonging, specifically through self-narration as a means of forming one’s own identity. My work is informed by research and visual readings of other women artists and my practice embraces diversity in the creative processes with which I engage. In a series of paintings staged in hotel bedrooms the inclusion of mirrors, reflections and a camera phone creates a sense of staging and the triangulation of camera, mirror and viewer invites the observer into the narrative. The performative element addresses the ongoing representational negotiation between first and third person representations of the self. A series of paintings on found china plates considers the loss of identity imposed by motherhood and domesticity and creates a physical connection to past lives and lost opportunities. Reflecting on the iconography of female saints, a series of monoprints considers the historical representation of women only as the embodiment of required virtues with self sacrifice perceived as the greatest virtue.
Group Exhibitions
Dunamaise Arts Centre Open Submission, selected by Gabhann Dunne, November – December 2025
Biennial International Open Call, Ballinglen Museum of Art, selected by Mick O’Dea PPRHA, August 2025 – January 2026
Cairde Visual, Hamilton Gallery and Hyde Bridge Gallery, selected by Gabhann Dunne, Sligo, July 2025
2025 Summer Open, The Courthouse Gallery, Ennistymon, Clare, July 2025
Kilkenny Portrait Show, selected by Bernadette Kiely, March – April 2025
If Heaven Falls The Lido Stores, Margate, UK, February – March 2025
Kilkenny Portrait Show, selected by Bernadette Kiely, March – April 2025
Bloodroot Pulchri Studio, the Hague, January – February 2025 (then Hamilton Gallery, Sligo)
Ties that Bind Us, 2025 Members’ Exhibition, 126 Gallery, Galway, January – February 2025
Dunamaise Arts Centre Open Submission, selected by Vera Klute RHA, November – December 2024
Europe in the Heart of Ireland, Europa House, Dublin, October – November 2024 then Hamilton Gallery, Sligo
Royale Arcade Academy, Arcade Studios Belfast, October 2024
194th RHA Annual Exhibition, May – August 2024
Ardgillan Gallery Summer Exhibition, June – August 2024
Kilkenny Portrait Show, selected by Blaise Smith RHA, March – April 2024
Dunamaise Arts Centre Open Submission, selected by Blaise Smith RHA, November 2023 – January 2024
Art and Climate, Royal College of Physicians Ireland, selected by James Hanley RHA, October 2023
Twenty One at Mermaid Arts Centre, Bray, July – September 2023
Transience, ArtNetdlr exhibition, selected by Carmel Benson, August 2023
193 rd RHA Annual Exhibition, May – July 2023
Connect, ArtNetdlr exhibition, selected by Charles Harper RHA, May – July 2023
Spring Open at Rua Red February - April 2023 selected by Maria McKinney (Artist, Rua Red Studio)
Maoliosa Boyle (Director, Rua Red)
Cairde Visual Exhibition at the Hamilton Gallery, Sligo, July 2022
Summer Open 2022 at the Courthouse Gallery, Clare, May-June 2022
RHA Annual Exhibition 2012, 2013 and 2020
Solo exhibitions:
Threshold at Athlone Civic Centre Atrium July 2023
Other Lives at Rua Red Café Wall exhibition April 2023
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