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Artist Exhibitions:
Forthcoming Exhibitions
October 2008: The Barbican
Library, The Barbican, London
January - September 2008: CASS
Business School, London
Permanent: Graham’s Fine Art
Gallery, London
Selected Exhibitions
2008:
Touching You Touching Art,
with BlindArt at Catmose
Gallery, Leicestershire
2007:
The Islington Contemporary Art
& Design Fair 2007, London
Menier Gallery, with the...
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Artist Galleries:
Graham's Fine Art
56 Crouch End Hill
London N8 8AA
Tel: 020 8341 2526
www.grahamfineart.com
Art-Switch Exchange Limited
Studio 354
Stratford Workshops
Burford Road
London, E15 2SP
www.art-switch.com
Member of The Society of
Graphic Fine Art
www.sgfa.org.uk
Member of Foundation...
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Artist Reviews:
2006: Boomerang Media, ‘Kylie
Style’
2004: Imagemakers, ‘Cutting
Edge Fashion Illustration’, by
Martin Dawber, foreword Jaspar
Conran, launched at the London
Book Fair 2004 and The
Liverpool Biennial 2004
2001: Painting World, ‘Drawing
the Line - Society of Graphic
Fine Art’
2001: Wandsworth Guardian,
‘Perfect Picture Life of Art
world’
2001...
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Collections:
Kirkland & Ellis International
LLP, London
Patrizia Immobilien AG, Munich
Susan Small, London
In private collections in
London, USA, Germany and
Spain...
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Commissions:
One public commission for
Charing Cross Hospital,
London, in 1999 and various
private commissions for UK,
USA and Germany
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Artist Statement for Susan Hippe
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On n'est pas un homme - on le devient.
One is not a human being - one becomes a human being.
Erasmus
L'erotisme est la celebration de quelque chose de sacre.
Eroticism is the celebration of something sacred.
Rene Lambert
La chair est un tapis de prieres.
The flesh is a prayer rug.
India, source unknown
Lass die Schoenheit, die du suchst, in dem erscheinen, was du tust.
Let the beauty that you search appear in what you do.
Rumi (Persia 13th century)
Susan Hippe BA(Hons) SGFA
I was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, in 1966 and have lived in a variety of countries - France, Canada, Germany, Denmark, USA and London which has become my base. While working as a ballet dancer an injury gave me the opportunity to pursue a career in art.
Coming from a theatrical and dance background, a consistent theme of my work is movement, which I translate on a visual pictorial level.
In a way, the act of drawing is choreographic. A drawn line is both a graphic entity and a physical movement that is at once spontaneous and precise, it is accomplished in one continuous movement. The pen hits the surface running and leaves it in the same fashion.
The movement of a body, voice or melody transgresses into sweeping mass of lines capturing the energy and beauty of the moving entity.
My preferred medium is progressive drawing and mixed media, often combining my passion for lines with my love for materials and patterns.
The materials I use in my drawings are found, recycled or bought, exploring the infinite possibilities of our consumer's world, for example leaflets, cosmetic pads, coffee filters, pencil sharpener residue, plastic, quilt, textile, aluminium foil, balloons, stickers...
Inspiration is everywhere. I am passionate about the joy, exhuberance and beauty that life offers in all its different forms - opera, music, ballet, theatre, art, travelling, popular culture, street life, folklore, daily life experiences and observations.
An important aspect is also the notorious humour of the Anglo-Saxon culture.
I want my pictures to reflect this enthusiasm and to energise the viewer, combining a vigorous working process with humour, quirkiness and outlandishness.
I studied fine art and visual communication for three years at Universities in France and finished my BA(Hons)in London, at Roehampton University in 1999.
Since graduating, I have been exhibiting and producing work on a regular basis, including one public and numerous private commissions.
I have had several solo exhibitions in London and taken part in numerous group exhibitions in London, New York, Paris, Edinburgh, Spain and the UK.
Favourite Quotes
Dance like nobody's watching. Love like you've never been hurt. Sing like nobody's listening. Live like it's heaven on earth.
Mark Twain
La jeunesse est une maladie mentale dont on guerit quelquefois - youth is a mental illness from which one sometimes recovers
Cervantes
L'humour est la politesse du désespoir - humour is the courtesy of despair
Achille Chavée
There are just no words to impart the measureless sense of joy, the love of life, the enchantment with existence that envelops the dancing human. Have you danced lately?
Trudi Schoop
Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.
God gives you the face. Smiling you have to do yourself.
Irish saying
Always trust yourself and your own feeling…if it turns out that you are wrong, then the natural growth of your inner life will eventually guide you to other insights. Allow your judgements their own silent, undisturbed development, which like all progress, must come from deep within and cannot be forced or hastened. Everything is in gestation and then birth…to let each impression and each embryo of a feeling come to a completion, entirely in itself, in the dark, in the unsayable, the unconscious, beyond the reach of one's own understanding, and with deep humility and patience to wait for the hour when a new clarity is born: this alone is what it means to live as an artist: in understanding - as in creating.
Rainer Maria Rilke
'...How bored have I been sometimes in front of certain works of art...And what if we decided to give some space to lightness, to a dose of madness...enabling us, just for a moment, to avoid the traps of immobility and preconceived ideas, to inverse the roles by using our own basic madness as raw material for transformation, metamorphosis and reinvention.'
Eddy Panger, artist
‘During January and February at Slimbridge in Gloucestershire, starlings gather at dusk before roosting. From 4.30pm for a period of approximately 40 minutes, small groups of birds flew in from all directions converging into an ever-expanding swathe. Against a cloudy and darkening sky the starlings massed together flying above us like a continuous hail of arrows. At one point a sparrow hawk was amongst them and the bird cloud split in two – one half peeling off to the left, the other to the right; miraculously no two birds ever appeared to touch – a million separate dynamic marks in the sky. The bird formation described a drum, stretched into an elastic strip, then the funnel of a tornado, becoming invisible as they turned sharply in the air. It was an unpredictable display of shape-shifting geometry. As the starlings circled, flying lower and lower preparing to roost, the noise from the beating of their wings was thrilling - a huge engine flying over-head. The starlings came down suddenly, almost invisible, as one body. The sky was empty. I had watched a drawing master class.’
Alison Wilding, artist
Sublimation…Louise Bourgeois talks of sublimation and considers the process a gift. For her, it provides the impulse behind her sculptural work.
'I feel that if we are able to sublimate, in any way we do, that we should feel thankful. I cannot talk about any other profession, but the artist is blessed with this power.'
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