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Woodend Studios
Mill 1, floor 2
Warmco Ind Park
Manchester Rd.
Mossley
Nr Ashton under Lyne
Great Britain
E. Mail- sueplatt_art@yahoo.co.uk
Mob. 0777 5595 662
Website - www.sue-platt.com
Sue Platt
Studied at:
Oldham College Foundation Studies in Art & Design P/T 1991-1993
Grade: Distinction
Bolton Institute B.A. Hons. in Visual Arts (major) and Art and Design History (minor) 1993-1996
Grade: 1st. class
Bolton Institute Post Graduate Certificate in Education in Art and Design 1997/98
D33 GNVQ assessor
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2007 Cabinets of Curiosities, Stockport Art Gallery Stockport
2007 Architecture Week, Woodend Mill Mossley
2007 Cabinets of Curiosities, Gallery Oldham Oldham
2004 Transit of Venus, Jeremiah Horrocks Celebration, Astley Hall Chorley
2004 Concerning Presence & Absence Bury
2003 Eastthorpe Visual Arts (EVA) Nr. Huddersfield
2002&4 Wensley Gallery Bury
2001 Ambivalent Sensations Saddleworth
2000 Lawrence Batley Theatre Huddersfield
1999 Curious Intentions Pankhurst Centre Manchester
1998 Body Genetic and U.V. Alchemy, Balearica Manchester
1980 Oldham Art Gallery Oldham
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2008 People and Environment Haworth Art Gallery Accrington
2008 Autumn Glow (Group) The Beetroot Tree Draycott Derbyshire
2008 The Miraculous Emporium of Amazing Altered Books Woodend Mill
2008 Woodend Artists, Solaris Blackpool
2007 Printfest Ullverston, Cumbria
2007 Altered Books Holden Gallery MMU
2006 North Light Gallery West Yorkshire
2005/6/7Postcard Exhibition Surface Gallery Nottingham
2004 Inspired by the Box Man Surface Gallery Nottingham
2003 Assembled References, 4 Artists, Drumcroon Wigan
2003 Drumcroon Art Education centre (Artist’s Sketchbooks ) Wigan
2002 Astley Hall Art Gallery Chorley
2001 S10 Gallery Sheffield
2001 Mini Prints Exhibition Hull
2001 Alphabet Soup, Art House National Touring Exhibition, Dean Clough Halifax - London
2001 Greenpeace Print Exhibition Aberdeen
2000 Art For Youth, North North Yorkshire
2000 The Gallery Hebden Bridge
2000 Art Link, Stockport Art Gallery (2002 & 2005) Stockport
1999 Trichotomy II (Two Women ) Saddleworth Art Gallery
1998 Oldham Visual Arts Venture Jackson’s Pit Oldham
1997 Trichotomy (Three Women ) Saddleworth Art Gallery
Forth coming Exhibitions
2009 Printmaker of the Month (Solo) Wrexham Art Centre
2009 A Personal Obsession (Solo) Dean Clough, Halifax
2009 The Miraculous Emporium of Amazing Altered Books(Group)
Ashton U Lyne
2009 Amazing Transformed Objects (Solo) Tonic Gallery, Leeds
2009 Theatre of the Unique (Solo) Buxton Art Gallery and Museum
Selected galleries
Millyard Gallery Saddleworth
Sally Brown Gallery Marple Bridge
The Peoples Gallery Stalybridge
The White Room Meltham
Wendy Levy Contemporary Art Gallery Didsbury
Wensley Gallery Ramsbottom
Teaching
1996 – 1999 Bolton Institute (Now University of Bolton)
Printmaking, Life Drawing – B.A. Hons years 2 and 3
Art and Design – Pre degree Foundation
Printmaking, Life and Observational Drawing – Pre degree Foundation
1998 – 2001 Oldham College
Printmaking, Life and Observational Drawing – Pre degree Foundation
Art and Design – GNVQ all levels
2000 – 2004 Gallery Oldham
Printmaking and Sculpture workshops
Oldham and Saddleworth Lifelong Learning
Ceramics
Relevant Information
Also exhibited in: Drumcroon, Warrington, Sefton, MAFA, Haworth, Astley, Oldham,
Saddleworth, Stockport, Chester Open Exhibitions
2002 Artist in Residence at Bolton Institute Printmaking Department AA2A
2002 Commission for Chorley Council
2007 Radio Manchester interview concerning Cabinets of Curiosities
2007 Selector for Stockport Open Exhibition
2008 Member of Judging Panel for CIS North West Prisoners Art
Competition
Currently writing and illustrating a book entitled The Victos Chronicles.
Influences are many and include artists such as Tony Cragg, Mona Hatoum, Louise Bourgeois, Susan Hiller, Joseph Cornell, Marcel Duchamp, Rebecca Horn and Mark Dion
Working Statement 2008
Rooted very much in art and science the work encompasses a variety of mediums, sculpture, installation, printmaking and painting, In formal terms the work involves rigid structures and organic forms which can be clearly seen throughout the body of work, curios encased in boxes and containers. My concern is about acquiring objects and materials and transforming them into artefacts that are both precious and mysterious.”