Past exhibitions and events
2010
INGENIOUS PURSUITS
Sugar Store Gallery
Brewery Arts Centre
Highgate
Kendal
Cumbria
28 November - 26 January 2010
Prints and wall based sculpture. The dichotomy between fine print and sculpture using found objects are key to this exhibition. This work is a response to my personal collection of unusual artefacts and artworks which is the 3 dimensional aspect to my work. It questions my desire, (and others) to collect and accumulate disparate objects and artefacts.The prints are a way of documentation, they are a more personal and spontaneous response than just writing things down and making lists.
Fish and Bones
2009/10
Mini Print Exhibition 2009/10
Artlink
Hull 4 December - 28 January 2010
Hidden Hare
2009
In Pursuit Of the Strange
Mid Pennine Gallery
Burnley
3 October - 28 November 2009
A series of prints selected by the curator
Cinnamon & Script
2009
Theatre of the Unique
Enter the dimly lit space of the gallery and peer into the dark wood and glass cabinets, encounter curiosities and oddities, old and new, be intrigued by the unusual mix of artefacts and artworks. Discover the calcified snail with the head of a human, the armadillo basket, the shrunken head, the smoking baby and the richly decorated mace. Absorb the atmosphere of the museum like space (currently part of a muuch larger museum), experience the merging of Art, Science and Alchemy!
11 July to 20 September 2009
Buxton Museum and Art Gallery
Terrace Rd, Buxton, Derbyshire, SK17 6DA
Tel. 01298 24658, email buxton.museum@derbyshire.gov.uk
Closed Mondays
FREE
This installation explores my obsession with collecting curious objects. they are placed in odd little cabinets and cases which further enhance their "curiousness", positioned behind glass, they are transformed into precious artefacts yet still cling to their inherent history.
2009
The Miraculous Emporium of Amazing Altered Books
An installation curated by Sue Platt for Woodend Artists
Sue Platt built a huge bookcase from recycled materials and she and a number of Woodend artists created over 60 altered books to exhibit on and around it. From flying books to a bureau and chair, to a ballerina, beautifully stitched textile books, origami, interactive telephone book, graffiti, books transformed into 3D landscapes, scrolls, a garden shed, a whole range of techniques and subjects used, some in a flamboyant, decorative approach, whilst others quite understated and subtle, yet thought provoking.
May - August 2009
Woodend Artists Showcase
Sue Platt and other Woodend Artists are exhibiting at the
Angel Urban Gallery Angel Centre
Salford
until 13-07-09 FREE
www.salfordangel.org.uk
2009
A Personal Response
Fine Print, Painting and other things
Sue Platt
3 -30 April 2009
Aubergine and Bronze
Acrylic on canvas
Situated on the main corridor,floor B
Leeds General Infirmary (Old Site)
Top of the Great George St Staircase, Leeds LS1 3EX
8am - 8pm daily (FREE)
Tonic is the Arts and Environment programme for the Leeds teaching hospitals NHS Trust.
(We use the Arts to improve hospital environments for the benefit of patients, staff and visitors.)
Registered Charity no. 1075308
Sue opened her studio again for Art March
Saturday and Sunday 28th and 29th March 2009
The annual event at Woodend Studios when many of the resident artists allow the public into their work spaces to see "How it's done!"
Some of the artists will be demonstrating various techniques which they use to create their work.
Sue will be doing two 15 minute demonstrations each day of Printmaking techniques.
FREE
2008
The Bizarre and the MysteriousTo celebrate the opening of Sue's new studio, and to coincide with Woodend Artists 'Gifted' Winter Art Bazaar
An Installation of
Artworks and Artefacts
The new studio was transformed into a grotto of bizarre and mysterious artefacts and artworks
Marvel at the preserved mermaid,
Be amazed by the human shrunken head,
Discover the 40 year old jelly baby,
Be transfixed by the sinister shrunken man in the cabinet,
Wonder at the fossilised mutant part man part snail and much more.
Not to mention the Artwork!!!!
See new studio web page
2008
The Miraculous Emporium of Amazing Altered Books
photo by Gabi Coburn