Aldworth, Susan

(Matter into Imagination)

www.susanaldworth.com

Susan Aldworth took a degree in philosophy at Nottingham University prior to studying printmaking at Sir John Cass School of Art in London. Her most recent work focuses on the human brain and issues of personal identity. She was awarded a major Arts Council Visual Arts Grant in 2005 to pursue her work on consciousness as Artist in Residence at The Royal London Hospital. The work from this project will be exhibited in a series of solo exhibitions, Matter into Imagination, in London in June-September 2006. She is also Artist in Residence at London Metropolitan University working on a ground-beaking series of etchings. She has exhibited widely most recently at Cheltenham Festival of Science 2004,The Whitechapel (Education Room) 2002 and the V&A 1999,2000 &2002. She received an Arts Council Grant to devise and curate a permanent collection of Outsider Art, The East Wing Collection, for Homerton Hospital in 2003. Her work is held in many private and permanent collections. She is a curator for ING Bank art projects. She lectures, part time, at Norwich School of Art and Design.