Susan Madert
Susan Madert is a painter and printmaker now based in Dublin at La Catedral Studio.
Susan’s current and ongoing work focuses on self-narration/representation as a means of forming one’s own identity. Susan uses self-portraiture to explore themes around identity, displacement and belonging. The different environments in which she sites herself form an important part of this exploration with hotel bedrooms featuring frequently for their liminal quality. With the frequent inclusion of mirrors, reflections and the camera phone, a sense of staging becomes apparent. This performative element addresses the acute tension between how we feel ourselves to be and how we are increasingly obliged to present ourselves to the world. These self-portraits reject the societal conventions of female beauty and resist the invisibility of the older woman. . The works examine solitude, as distinct from loneliness or isolation, and in doing so make oblique reference to the not entirely historical assumption associating women’s creativity with selfishness.
Susan is a graduate of Bath Academy of Art and Goldsmiths’ College, London and has exhibited widely in Ireland in group and solo exhibitions and is a professional member of Visual Artists Ireland.
Group Exhibitions
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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