Diary Notes from a New World. 2009.

Diary Notes from a New World
Date: 27 July 2009

For several years my work has been concerned with issues of identity, documentation, displacement, the treatment of refugees, illegal immigrants and the civilian victims of war.

This new body of work, which was begun while I was artist in residence at the Ragdale Foundation, north of Chicago, looks at my own privileged displacement while working in the prairies and in my new and very different home in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales.

The restrictions imposed by luggage size and, a new temporary studio in our living room, have given rise to the opportunity to explore the materiality of water based media and paper.

Patterns and geometry occur in nature and in the built and planned environment that we claim and personalise to make home. I continue to use these elements as the primary visual focus of my work.

It is impossible to live in a beautiful landscape, especially if you love flowers and gardens as I do, and not be affected by the colours and forms of nature.

These works on paper are notes, some rapidly and some obsessively executed, of my recent experience.

More of these works and more recent works can be found on my blog http://sburet.blogspot.com

Susan Buret