Susan Eyre is interested in unseen forces and activity of matter in the universe including intangible phenomena which cannot be explained in terms of materiality, such as the aura of place and the dream of paradise. She explores similarities in our search to understand the origin of our universe and human consciousness through physics, religious belief and mythology. Projects include lead artist for “Laboratory of Dark Matters”, a research, residency and events programme inspired by a visit to the dark matter research facility at Boulby Underground Laboratory; a Studio4 Chisenhale Residency in London where she built a human scale interactive ‘cloud chamber’ experience and working with Imperial College Space Society to launch a cloud chamber in the payload of a high altitude balloon as part of her residency at Allenheads Contemporary Arts where artists have access to the North Pennines Observatory.
Susan Eyre is interested in unseen forces and activity of matter in the universe including intangible phenomena which cannot be explained in terms of materiality, such as the aura of place and the dream of paradise. She explores similarities in our search to understand the origin of our universe and human consciousness through physics, religious belief and mythology. Projects include lead artist for “Laboratory of Dark Matters”, a research, residency and events programme inspired by a visit to the dark matter research facility at Boulby Underground Laboratory; a Studio4 Chisenhale Residency in London where she built a human scale interactive ‘cloud chamber’ experience and working with Imperial College Space Society to launch a cloud chamber in the payload of a high altitude balloon as part of her residency at Allenheads Contemporary Arts where artists have access to the North Pennines Observatory.
Education
2013 - 2015 MA Printmaking Royal College of Art
2004–2007 BA Textiles Goldsmiths College, University of London
2002-2004 BTEC Foundation Richmond Adult Community College
Exhibitions
2021 BIFF 30 Second Film Festival Birkenhead International Film Festival; Memento Mori AIR Gallery, Altrincham WA14
2020 Visions in the Nunnery Bow Arts, London E3
2019 Lizard Point Residency Exhibition Lumen Crypt London E2; Lizard Point Residency Exhibition Museum of Cornish Life Cornwall TR13; Reading Stones St Augustine’s Tower London E5; Continuum ACA Allenheads Northumberland NE47; InsatiableMind Salisbury Arts Centre Salisbury SP1; The Cosmic Sublime Pie Factory Margate CT9
2018 In Search of Darkness Grizedale Project Space Cumbria LA22; Beyond ACA Allenheads Northumberland NE47; Cosmic Perspectives Ugly Duck London SE1; Scales of Intangibility Studio4 Chisenhale Art Place London E3
2017 Supposedly Predictable Phenomena Deptford X Fringe London SE8; Laboratory of Dark Matters Cleveland Mining Museum Cleveland TS13; Laboratory of Dark Matters Guest Projects London E8; Lumen: School of Light Ugly Duck London SE1
2016 Aether Imperial College London SW7; The Matter of Objects Queen Mary University London EC1; Blind Plural Hundred Years Gallery London E2
2015 A Space Between The Stone Space London E11; Wells Art Contemporary Wells Museum Somerset BA5; Rising Stars Coombe Gallery Devon TQ6; HIX Award C&B Gallery London EC2A; Show 2015 Royal College of Art London SW11; Objects Of Café Gallery Projects London SE16
2014 neo:print prize neo:gallery22 Bolton BL1; Standing on the Frontier Unit 24 Gallery London SE1; Yesterday’s Wrong Thinking Café Gallery Projects London SE16
2013 ArtLacuna Prize ArtLacuna London SW1;HOT-ONE-HUNDRED Schwart Gallery London E9; Surrey Contemporary Robert Phillips Gallery Surrey KT12
2012 Landscape in Flux Canvas and Cream London SE23; Illumini Shoreditch Town Hall London EC1; Odds Against Tomorrow BEARSPACE London SE8; C&C Art Prize Canvas and Cream London SE23; U-N-F-O-R-E-S-E-E-N Studio 106 Art Gallery London SW6
2011 Pushing Print Pie Factory Margate CT9; Surface The Crypt Gallery London NW1; Beyond Borders The Point Eastleigh SO50
2010 Drawing Open One Church Street Gallery Bucks HP16; ArtsDepot Open ArtsDepot London N12; artWorks Open ArtWorks Project Space London E17
2009 London Group Open Menier Gallery London SE1; Human Nature The Muse at 269 London W11; At Play South Hill Park Berkshire RG12; 2008 ArtSway Open ArtSway Hampshire SO41; Restricted View Stables Gallery London NW2
Residencies
2021 Transient Online www.transienttt.co.uk
2019 Lizard Point Residency Mayes Creative + Lumen March Cornwall; Continuum 'Open Door Residency Allenheads Contemporary Arts February - June Northumberland NE47
2018 Studio4Chisehhale Art Place March - April London E3; Beyond 'Open Door Residency' Allenheads Contemporary Arts February - July Northumberland NE47; Dark Skies Residency Grizedale Forest - July Cumbria
Awards
2015 Permanent Collection Purchase Award Royal College of Art; 2006 Recognition of Excellence BA Student Award Scheme Goldsmiths College University of London; 2004 BTEC Outstanding Achievement AwardRichmond Adult Community College