Susan Derges

Susan Derges has established an international reputation over the past 15 years with one-person exhibitions in London, Cambridge, Edinburgh, New York, San Francisco and Tokyo. Her artistic practice has involved cameraless, lens based, digital and reinvented photographic processes as well as video . The metaphors her work has been concerned with encompass subject matter informed by the physical and biological sciences as well as landscape and abstraction. Her art is an ongoing enquiry into the relationship of the self to the observed that has generated images that combine aesthetic beauty with thought provoking content. Major publications of her work include Woman Thinking River, published in 1998, Liquid Form with an essay by Professor Martin Kemp, published 1n 1999 and Kingswood published in 2002 by photoworks. She was recently involved in a major commission for the Eden Project’s Education Resource Centre in Cornwall.

Schumacher College is part of the Dartington Hall Trust, a company limited by guarantee, registered in England and as a charity (company no. 1485560, charity no. 279756). Registered office: The Elmhirst Centre, Dartington Hall, Totnes, Devon TQ9 6EL, UK.