Sue Pedley

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Sue Pedley (born 1954, Launceston Tasmania) is an Australian multi-media artist known for site-specific artworks in Australia and overseas. She has participated in residencies including the Bundanon Trust Creative Research Residency in 2016, [1] the Tokyo Wonder Site in 2012, and the 2008 International Sculpture Symposium, Vietnam. Pedley works solo and in collaboration with other artists.

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Early life

Pedley grew up in Launceston, Northern Tasmania [2] where her mother Peggy Pedley co-founded the Riverside Pottery Studio, a long-running gallery, ceramics studio and teaching hub. Members routinely worked with local clays.

Pedley initially studied Early Childhood Education, later switching to art, and graduating Bachelor of Fine Arts, from the Tasmanian School of Art in 1985. She was a guest student at Städelschule , Frankfurt, Germany. In 1997 she completed a Master of Fine Art at the Sydney College of the Arts.

Career

Pedley held her first solo exhibition, theintertidal zone, at Fitzroy's Gertrude Street Gallery in 1991. [3] [4] Then, as now, her work draws from the natural world. Her art is triggered by the shapes, textures and stories from beaches, waterways, and vegetation.

Sue and Peggy Pedley's joint Patches of Light exhibition was held at Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery Tasmania in 2019. [5] The Pedley family is bound to the Tasmanian landscape "through a history of labour, trade, and artistic practice across six generations following the colonisation of Tasmania". [5]

Pedley's art often features large-scale drawing, rubbings, or cyanotypes. Found objects, including organic mementos like seaweed, bamboo and fleece also appear in her work.

Since 1995, she has been a drawing tutor at art schools in Sydney, including the Sydney College of the Arts and the National Art School.

Selected group exhibitions

Collections

Awards

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  1. ↑ "Sue Pedley". Bundanon . Archived from the original on 13 March 2023. Retrieved 7 November 2023.
  2. 1 2 "Sue Pedley". National Gallery of Victoria . Archived from the original on 19 March 2022. Retrieved 19 March 2022.
  3. ↑ Millner, Jacqueline (2003). Sue Pedley. Woolloomooloo, NSW: Artspace Visual Arts Centre. p. 40. ISBN   0646420038. OCLC   156360619. Archived from the original on 8 November 2023. Retrieved 12 March 2022– via Monash University Library's Caulfield Rare Books.
  4. ↑ Horwitz, Tess (1991). The intertidal zone (Exhibition catalog). Fitzroy, Victoria: 200 Gertrude Street (Gallery). OCLC   892674438. Archived from the original on 8 November 2023. Retrieved 7 November 2023– via Monash University Library's Caulfield Rare Books.
  5. 1 2 "Patches of Light". Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery . 2019. Archived from the original on 12 March 2022. Retrieved 12 March 2022.
  6. ↑ "SITE Lab Project - Art Catalogue". LAB-SITE. 2021. pp. 14–17. Archived from the original on 8 November 2023. Retrieved 12 March 2022– via issuu.
  7. ↑ Gillespie, Jane (18 March 2015). "Future Femist Archive". Museums and Galleries of NSW. Archived from the original on 16 April 2021. Retrieved 12 March 2022.
  8. ↑ "Light Sensitive Contemporary Australian Photography from the Loti Smorgon Fund". National Gallery of Victoria. 12 March 2022.
  9. ↑ "Sue Pedley". Artbank . Australian Government Office for the Arts. Retrieved 12 March 2022.
  10. ↑ "Sue Pedley - Australia". Echigo Tsmuri Art Field. Archived from the original on 2 June 2022. Retrieved 12 March 2022.
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