Susan Wilson

BIOGRAPHY

Born in Dalry, Galloway, Scotland

1970-1974        University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne ; BA (Hons) Fine Art: 

Hatton Prize for Painting 1974

1974-1975        Edinburgh College of Art; Special Course in Painting and Printmaking

1975-1980        University of Edinburgh;  M.Litt, Art History Thesis

1984-1985        Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Bookbinding

Member of Dundee Printmakers Workshop from 1983 to its closure. From 1999 working printmaker at DCA Print Studio; current member of Edinburgh Printmakers. 

Founding member of PrintRoom Dundee. Has exhibited regularly in Scotland and abroad.

My artistic practice, since graduation, has been based mainly within the discipline of etching, the principal inspiration being landscape - its geology and fossil record, its surface patterns, its relics. Recent etchings also demonstrate my interest in plant life (including vegetables), its oddities and demise, and the unusual characteristics of found leaves.

In addition to my work in etching, an important aspect of my work has been the collaborations with poets and writers, notably the Hirta Portfolio, with Bill Duncan, about the history, culture and evacuation of the island of St Kilda; ‘blots’ with Colin Herd for The Written Image, a joint venture between The Scottish Poetry Library and Edinburgh Printmakers; and ‘One old onion and other poems’ with the poet Jenny Elliott. The resulting books and folios of prints and poems were all handprinted and handmade.