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Susanna heron biography

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Susanna Heron

British site-specific artist

Susanna Heron (born 1949) hon FRIBA is a British site-specific artist recognised for her work in stone relief. Her best known works include Stone Drawing for St John's College, Oxford, completed in 2019, and Henslow's Walk at Sainsbury Laboratory, University of Cambridge, winner of the Stirling Prize 2012.[1]

Biography

Heron was born in Welwyn Garden City in 1949.[2] Her family moved from London to Eagles Nest, Zennor, Cornwall in 1955.[3] She is the younger daughter of the painter Patrick Heron and Delia Heron (née Reiss[4]) and sister of architect Katharine Heron.[5] She was educated at Penzance Girls Grammar School and studied at Falmouth School of Art (1967–68) and Central School of Art and Design, London (1968–1971).[6] Since 1978 the artist has lived and worked in the East End of London. She moved to her present studio in Shoreditch in 2006.[7]

Exhibitions

Heron’s first exhibition of sculpture was shown at the Whitechapel Art Gallery

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Susanna Heron

Susanna Heron is a British site-specific artist. Born in Welwyn Garden City in 1949, Susanna grew up in Cornwall. Her first exhibition of sculpture was shown at the Whitechapel Art Gallery in 1985, displaying wall-defining works and small sculptures. Solo exhibitions followed at Camden Arts Centre in 1989, Newlyn Art Gallery in 1992 and the Mead Gallery, Warwick University in 2002.

In 1993 Susanna was awarded her first site specific commission, Slate Frieze; installed at the Council of the European Union in Brussels in 1995, it consisted of 23 rectangular slabs of engraved slate over a 21m length wall. A series of high-profile commissions followed including Waterwindow; a waterfall and window sited at the change in levels in Priory Place in Coventry, with the fall of water evolving a water sensitive drawing on green copper, and Henslow’s Walk, comprised of four double images carved in shallow relief on an interior wall. Working with Stanton Williams Architects it was installed at the Sainsbury Laboratory for the study of Plant Sciences, University of Cambri

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COMMISSIONED WORKS2014-2019Stone Drawing, A shallow carving in negative relief, cut from clipsham stone, occupying the internal and external west wall of the new Library and Study Centre at St John's College Oxford. 2012-2014Travertine Frieze, A shallow carving in negative relief cut in travertine marble forming the side wall to the main entrance at 40 Chancery Lane.2008-2011Henslow's Walk, Stone engraving for Lecture Theatre Sainsbury Laboratory for the study of Plant Sciences, Cambridge Botanical Garden2005-2008Roche, Facade for the House of Fraser in Cabot Circus, Bristol2004-2007Still Point, A major external artwork in the lea of the Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King, Liverpool2003-2006Aquaduct, A choreographic landscape work incorporating running water for the central space of The Brunswick Centre in Bloomsbury2001-2003Side Street, A covered pedestrian passage linking Millbank to John Islip Street incorporating four vertical panels of slate with engravings. City Inn, Westminster. 2001-200236 Elements: Gl

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