Artist Susan Derges has been conducting research
towards new work at the Museum of the History of Science at
the University of Oxford.
Natural Magic is the outcome of Derges's year-long
residency in Oxford. The residency is part of the millennium
celebrations for Year of the Artist. Year of the Artist began
on 1 June 2000 and is the largest and most ambitious arts project
ever mounted in England with over 1000 artists working in 1000
places nationally. It seeks to raise the status and profile
of living artists and give them opportunities to take their
work in new directions.
Susan Derges has established an international
reputation with one-person exhibitions in London, Cambridge,
Edinburgh, New York, San Francisco and Tokyo. Characteristically,
her practice has involved camera-less, lens-based, digital and
reinvented photographic processes, and encompasses subject matter
informed by the physical and biological sciences as well as
landscape and abstraction. Her art comprises an ongoing enquiry
into the relationship of the self to the observed.
The University of Oxford's contributions to Year
of the Artist are being organised in association with The Laboratory
at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art.
http://www.ruskin-sch.ox.ac.uk/lab/02/index.html
