Susan Elizabeth Jowsey [1] (born 1962) [2] is a New Zealand multimedia artist and a university lecturer. [3] [4] She works with perfumery, [5] found materials, 3D objects, installation, moving image and photography. [4]
In 1996, Jowsey won the Visa Gold Art Award. [6] In 2001, she was a joint holder of the Tylee Cottage Residency at the Sarjeant Gallery in Whanganui, in the North Island of New Zealand. [6] In 2009, Jowsey, her husband Marcus Williams, and their two children (aged 12 and 10 at the time) won the Wallace Art Awards' paramount award with a photographic piece they had collaborated on under the name "F4 Collective". [7] As part of the prize, the family spent six months at the International Studio and Curatorial Programme in New York. [8] It was the first time in the Wallace Art Awards' history that a photographic piece had won the Paramount Award, and also the first time a collective had won. [3] [7]
In 2014 the F4 Collective produced a work for the Hastings City Art Gallery in Hastings. [9]