SUE McQUEEN is a painter and printmaker who lives and works in London. She graduated from Camberwell College (BA in Fine Art, 2002) and studied at the Turps Art School (Offsite Programme, 2020-2024). She has exhibited and been a resident artist at both Westminster and St Paul’s Cathedrals, London and has exhibited at Waterstones (Basement Gallery), London. She has participated in several group shows such as: Centenary Gallery, Camberwell College of Art, London; Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London; Fitzrovia Gallery, London; Thames-Side Studios Gallery, London. She is a tutor / artist educator in painting and printmaking. She writes poetry, facilities art retreats and as a community artist, she provides therapeutic art to all ages.
EDUCATION
2020-2024 (Offsite Studio Programme), Turps Banana, London
2013-2020 (Fine Art and Poetry), City Lit and Morley Colleges, London
1999-2002 (BA Visual Arts), Camberwell College of Art, London
1997-1999 (BTEC Fine Art Foundation), Oaklands College, St Albans, Herts
1989-1991 (Oxford Diploma in Theology), Plater College, Oxford
1986-1987 (Pupil Nurse Training), Farnborough, Kent
EMPLOYMENT
2025-present Art Retreat, Benedictine Monastery, Turvey, Beds
2023-present Tutor, The Art Stables, London (Painting & Printmaking)
2017-present Community Artist, London
2003-2004 St Paul’s Cathedral, London (Artist in Residence)
2002-2005 Room & Art, Art Consultancy, London
2001-2003 Westminster Cathedral, London (Artist in Residence)
COMMUNITY ART PROJECTS
2019-2020 ‘Art With Sue’, London (Children’s Art Club)
2019 ‘Hale End Bird Sanctuary’, London
2019 ‘Pollinators in Perspective’, London
VOLUNTEERING
2017-2020 Dulwich Picture Gallery, London (‘Create and Connect’)
2017 – 2018 Morley College, London (Printmaking Technician)
2017 St Joseph’s Hospice, London (‘Finding Space’)
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019 ‘Landscape And The Imagination’, Ye Olde Rose and Crown, London
2018 ‘Words and Pictures’, Basement Gallery, Waterstones, London
2015-24 Leytonstone Arts Trail, London
2015 Windsor Contemporary Art Fair, Berks
2014 Untitled Artist Fair, London
2005 Pond Gallery, London
2004 St Paul’s Cathedral, London
2003 Westminster Cathedral, London
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITONS
2024 ‘We Could Go On’, Hornsey Library, London
2023 & 2024 (Turps Offsite Programme) Thames-Side Studios Gallery, London
2023 ‘The Meeting Room’, The Koppel Project Station, London
2022 ‘All The Same Age At Different Tines’, Fitzrovia Gallery, London
2020 Royal Academy of Art, Summer Exhibition
2018 ‘Disintegration – Integration’, R K Burt, London
2013 ‘Personal mythology’, Clore Studio, Tate Modern, London
2009 Ground Floor Atrium, Guys Hospital, London
2004 ‘100 Mothers’, ‘Oh Art’ Gallery, Bethnal Green, London
2003 ‘Different Directions’, Centenary Gallery, Camberwell College, London
2003 ‘Glimpses of the sacred’, St Katherine Kree, London
2002 ‘Next best thing’, Cork Street, London
COLLECTIONS
Works held in several public and private collections including: British Society of Haematology, London; Norman Forster’s Albion Riverside Flats, London; Charing Cross and Hammersmith Hospitals, London; St Paul’s Cathedral, London