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Susan Eyre is a multidisciplinary artist working across sculpture, video, installation and print processes, creating work to encourage a sense of wonder in the everyday and an awareness of an entangled universe. She explores cosmological and geological phenomenon with a particular fascination for cosmic rays and magnetic fields. Ecological concerns at the human disconnect with the natural world, led her to creation myths and the idea of paradise as a state of bliss which has been lost. Turning to particle physics for an alternative origin story she found a cosmic, subatomic and quantum world equal to any ancient mythology in its fantastical nature. Employing her own scientific systems of enquiry and technology to assist in revealing the unseen and extending the boundaries of human sensory experience, her work brings the viewer into sensible contact with invisible phenomenon, embracing the vast and the unfathomable by appealing to human perception and presence. Susan has participated in dark sky residencies, instigated cross discipline projects alongside astro-physicists investigating the mysteries of dark matter, the UK High Altitude Society and Imperial College Space Society to launch a cloud chamber in the payload of a high altitude balloon. She led “Laboratory of Dark Matters”, a research, residency and events programme inspired by visiting the dark matter research facility at Boulby Underground Laboratory in the North East of England. She has built her own cloud chamber, developed workshops to visualise subatomic particle trails and created video animations activated in real time by cosmic rays passing through paired detectors. She has been the recipient of funding from Arts Council England, The Institute of Physics and The Science and Technology Facilities Council. In 2024 she was longlisted for the Aesthetica Art Prize and was awarded a creative development bursary from a-n Artists Newsletter which enabled further research into methods of monitoring Earth’s magnetic field, taking her from Hartland Magnetic Observatory in North Devon to Eskdalemuir Observatory in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. Recent investigations are looking at the historical legacy of pioneering cosmic ray experiments at Haverah Park Extensive Air Shower Array in North Yorkshire. Born in Suffolk, with a background as chef and computer programmer she is based in London with a studio in Woolwich.
Exhibitions 2025 The Geological Unconscious Hypha HQ, London NW1 2024 Carbon (Serendipity Arts Festival) The Excise Building, Panjim, Goa, India Art, Science, and Creativity Book Art Liverpool Central Library Life Boat APT (Art in Perpetuity Trust), London SE8 Aesthetica Art Prize Longlisted Artist York Art Gallery Carbon Science Gallery Bengaluru, India 2023 A Stone Sky duo Thames-side Studios Gallery London SE18 2022 Projected Topographies trio Saturation Point, London SE8 Anxiety of Interdisciplinarity Island Venue, Bristol
Wells Art Contemporary Wells Cathedral, Somerset May Fair Art Weekend May Fair Theatre, London W1J Particle and Wave Festival Contemporary Calgary, Alberta, Canada 2021 Memento Mori AIR Gallery, Altrincham, Manchester BIFF 30 Second Film Festival Birkenhead International Film Festival 2020 Visions in the Nunnery Nunnery Gallery Bow Arts, London E3 2019 Lizard Point Residency Exhibition Lumen Crypt St. John on Bethnal Green, London E2 Lizard Point Residency Exhibition Museum of Cornish Life, Helston, Cornwall Reading Stones trio St Augustines Tower, Hackney, London E5 Continuum Allenheads Contemporary Arts, Northumberland Insatiable Mind Salisbury Art Centre, Salisbury The Cosmic Sublime Pie Factory, Margate 2018 In Search of Darkness Grizedale Project Space, Cumbria Beyond Allenheads Contemporary Arts, Northumberland Cosmic Perspectives Ugly Duck, London SE1 Scales of Intangibility solo Studio4 Chisenhale Art Place, London E3 2017 Tomorrow's World Atom Galllery, London N16 Supposedly Predictable Phenomena trio Deptford X Fringe, No format Gallery, London SE8 Laboratory of Dark Matters Cleveland Ironstone Mining Musem, Skinningrove, Cleveland Laboratory of Dark Matters Guest Projects, London E8 Lumen:School of Light Ugly Duck, London SE1 2016 Aether Imperial College, London SW7 Sugar and Spice Devon House St. Katherines Docks, London E1 Modern Makers IV No Format Gallery, London SE18 The Matter of Objects Queen Mary University, London EC1 Blind Plural Hundred Years Gallery, London E2 2015 Giving Gallery 98, London SE1 A Space Between The Stone Space, London E11 Signs That Say What You Want Them To Say Lights of Soho, London W1F Wells Art Contemporary Wells Museum, Somerset Rising Stars Coombe Gallery, Dartmouth, Devon HIX Award C&B Gallery, London EC2A Multiplied Christies, London SW7 Show 2015 Royal College of Art, London SW11 Objects Of Café Gallery Projects, London SE16 2014 neo:print prize neo:gallery22, Bolton Ochre Originals New Ashgate Gallery, Farham, Surrey 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 Schwartz Gallery, London E9 Surrey Contemporary Robert Phillips Gallery,Walton on thames, Surrey 2012
Landscape in Flux duo C&C Gallery, London SE23 Illumini Event Shoreditch Town Hall, London EC1 Surface II The Crypt Gallery, London NW1 Odds Against Tomorrow BEARSPACE, London SE8 C&C Art Prize C&C Gallery, London SE23 U-N-F-O-R-E-S-E-E-N Studio 106 Art Gallery, London SW6 2011 Pushing Print The Pie Factory, Margate Art in a Box One Church Street Gallery, Great Missenden, Bucks Surface The Crypt Gallery, London NW1 Without Borders The Point, Eastleigh, Southampton 2010 Illumini Crypt-mas The Crypt Gallery, London NW1 Drawing Open One Church Street Gallery, Great Missenden, Bucks ArtsDepot Open ArtsDepot, London N12 Summer Salon Islington Arts Factory, London N7 artWorks Open ArtWorks Project Space, London E17 iGeneration Willesden Green Gallery, London NW10 2009 London Group Open Menier Gallery, London SE1 Human Nature solo The Muse at 269, London W11 At Play South Hill Park, Ringmead, Berkshire 2008 ArtSway Open ArtSway, Sway, Hampshire Restricted View solo Stables Gallery, London NW2 Re:construction solo The Living Room, Surbiton KT6 About Town solo The Toilet Gallery, London KT1 A Pattern Emerging Stoke Newington Library, London N16 2006 FreeRange Old Truman Brewery, London E1 Residencies 2021 Transient Online www.transienttt.co.uk 2019 Lizard Point Residency Mayes Creative + Lumen Studios, Cornwall Continuum Allenheads Contemporary Arts, Northumberland Hackney Historic Buildings Trust St. Augustines Tower, Hackney 2018 Studio4 Chisehhale Art Place, London E3 Beyond Allenheads Contemporary Arts, Northumberland Dark Skies Residency Grizedale Forest, Cumbria Presentations
2022 Public Tour of selected artworks Wells Cathedral (Wells Art Contemporary) 2021 Images in the Making Winchester School of Art 2019 Edge of Atmosphere UK High Altitude Society Annual Conference 2018 ReThinking Space Laser Lab Central Saint Martins Beyond UK High Altitude Society Annual Conference 2017 Laboratory of Dark Matters INTERACT Symposium Institute of Physics
2015 From the Roundabout to the Quark Manchester School of Art Workshops DIY Cloud Chamber 2021 Images in the Making Winchester School of Art 2018 Stargazing Weekend Allenheads Contemporary Arts, Northumberland Studio 4 Residency Chisenhale Art Place, London 2017 Laboratory of Dark matters Cleveland Mining Museum Laboratory of Dark Matters Guest Projects, London Education 2015 MA Printmaking Royal College of Art Dissertation distinction
Royal College of Art Permanent Collection Purchase Award 2007 BA(Hons) Textiles Goldsmiths College Dissertation distinction
Recognition of Excellence BA Student Award Scheme Prize 2004 BTEC Foundation Richmond Adult Community College Distinction, BTEC Outstanding Achievement Award