Suzanne Moxhay
Suzanne Moxhay’s complex images use archival or newly-taken photographs as their starting point. Combining a variety of low and high-tech techniques, her digital photomontages and etchings explore derelict spaces that, in the artist’s words, ‘feel as though they have broken down and perhaps been re-claimed’.
Suzanne’s practice is informed by the theatre of film-making, and strong light sources play a key role in creating drama. New life is breathed into deserted scenes by encroaching foliage or startled birds; often an uneasy sense of stillness prevails. ‘There’s always been a bit of a play in my work between what’s inside and outside, both in literal and psychological terms. In films the sets and scenes are often used in a way to try and describe the psychology of the character or something to do with the story; that’s always interested me.’
Despite her focus upon digital techniques, Suzanne’s images retain a painterly quality achieved through layering and manipulation of textures. The resulting works fuse the real with the imagined, drawing the viewer into spaces that feel intimate and often a little unsettling – whether architecturally grand, or domestic in scale.
Suzanne studied at Chelsea College of Art and The Royal Academy Schools, graduating in 2007. She has exhibited widely, both nationally and internationally since 2002 and her work is held in many significant public and private collections including the University of the Arts Collection, The Royal Academy of Arts, The Cooper Union New York, and Oxford University. She has featured in numerous publications including The Guardian, The FT, A-N Magazine and Art World Magazine and has been profiled and interviewed on the BBC Culture Show. Oliver Projects exhibited her work at the Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair in 2021, 2022 and 2023 and in the group show ‘Escape Routes’, in 2022. Suzanne lives and works in south east London.
We are looking forward to presenting new work by Suzanne in our forthcoming group exhibition Almost Blue which opens on 6th June 2024. Please register your interest.