Sue McQueen is a painter and printmaker who lives and works in London.
She is inspired by landscape, nature and her ‘everyday’. She works in brightly coloured layers (using oil, acrylic and mixed media), which interact and help to create a rambling and dreamlike quality where the viewer is being invited to look beyond the image.
She writes poetry and is also a Community Artist where she provides painting and printmaking workshops for people of all ages. This includes for older people, and for those who live with Alzheimer’s and Dementia.
EDUCATION
2020-present (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
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’, Hale End Library, Highams Park, London (Monthly Saturday morning art club, for all ages)
2019 ‘Hale End Bird Sanctuary’, Highams Park, London (part of ‘Grandads Island’)
2019 ‘Pollinators in Perspective’, London (part of ‘Landscape and the Imagination’, solo exhibition)
VOLUNTEERING
2017-2020 Dulwich Picture Gallery, ‘Create and Connect’ (art with Dementia sufferers)
2017 – 2018 Morley College, Printmaking Department (Technician)
2017 St Josephs Hospice ‘Finding Space’ (art and activity sessions)
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021 Star of India, & Stone Pizzeria, 875-877 High Road, Leytonstone, London E11 1HR (August – October 2021)
2021 (currently postponed) Pictorem Gallery, 383 Hoe Street, Walthamstow, London E17 9AP (5-29 May 2021)
2019 ‘Landscape And The Imagination’, Ye Olde Rose and Crown, Walthamstow, London
2018 ‘Words and Pictures’ Waterstones (Basement Gallery), Gower Street, London
2015/16/17/18 Leytonstone Arts Trail, Leytonstone, London
2015 Windsor Contemporary Art Fair, Windsor, Berks
2014 Untitled Artist Fair, Chelsea, London
2011-2012 Optic Interiors, Richmond, Surrey
2005 Pond Gallery, London
2004 St Paul’s Cathedral, London
2003 Westminster Cathedral, London
GROUP EXHIBITONS
2021 The Other Art Fair (presented by Saatchi Online), Virtual International Art Fair
2020 Royal Academy of Art, Summer Exhibition
2019 ‘Carnival’, Mind the Gap Gallery, Leytonstone, London
2019 ‘Tangent’, Stone Space Gallery, Leytonstone, London
2018 ‘Disintegration – Integration’ (Extended Drawing for Artists and Makers), R K Burt, London
2013 ‘Personal mythology’, Clore Studio, Tate Modern, London
2009 Ground Floor Atrium, Guys Hospital, London
2004 St Patricks, Wapping, 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
2008 British Society of Haematology, London
2002-2005 Norman Forster, Albion Riverside Flats, London; Pizza Express (via Room & Art Consultancy, London)
2004 Charing Cross and Hammersmith Hospitals, London (Imperial College Health Care), London
2003-2004 St Paul’s Cathedral, London
PRIZES
2002-2003 prize awarded by CIMA, London
