Susan Norrie (b. 1953) is a contemporary artist who explores social, political and environmental issues through painting, sculpture, installation, photography and video. Norrie trained at the National Art School and the Victorian College of the Arts before being included in a group exhibition at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in 1980. The gallery bought one of her paintings in 1983, and the following year seven of her works were included in Australian Visions:1984 Exxon International Exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum in New York. Through the 1980s she continued to exhibit while holding residencies at the University of Melbourne and the University of Western Sydney. Known initially for her painting, in the late 1990s Norrie began experimenting with the moving image, including her iconic six-channel video installation, Undertow (2002), commissioned by the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art. Her work Transit (2011) was co-purchased by Tate Modern in London and Sydney's Museum of Contemporary Art. Since her first overseas artist-in-residency in New York in 1990, she has held solo exhibitions in the US, Finland, Italy, France, Japan and New Zealand, in addition to showing in many group and solo shows around Australia. Norrie was selected to represent Australia at the 52nd Venice Biennale in 2007, and more recently was recipient of the Australia Council Visual Arts Award in 2019.
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