About

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