Susan Hippe

CURRICULUM VITAE

Place of Birth:                

Johannesburg, South Africa

Educational History:       

June 1999: Bachelor of Arts (Hons) degree from Roehampton Institute, University of Surrey.  My degree work, a 2 x 2m spiral in mixed media, is exhibited at Charing Cross Hospital, London.

1999-1995:  Art student at universities in France and London.

1995: Baccalaureate with distinction in France. Primary and grammar schools in Denmark, Germany and France.

Artistic Specialisation:    Progressive drawing and mixed media

Activities:                         Forthcoming Exhibitions

                                        Permanent: Graham’s Fine Art Gallery, London.

                                        March 2006: The Affordable Art Fair 2006, London,

                                        represented by Galerie Pascal Allouard.

                                        November 2005: 'Blue For Me And You', Graham’s Fine

                                        Art Gallery, London; Marziart International Gallery, Hamburg.

                                        October 2005: The Islington Contemporary Art & Design Fair

                                        2005, London.

                                        September 2005: Menier Gallery, with Society of Graphic

                                        Fine Art, London.

                                        September/June 2005: Gallery KALEIDOSCOPE, London.

                                        Selected Exhibitions

                                        September 2004: The Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool.

                                        February 2004: Two Women Show, Lang Gallery, London.

                                        January 2003: ‘A day without fun is a day lost forever’,

                                        Solo Exhibition, Space Gallery, London.

                                        August/July 2002: A&D Gallery, Solo Exhibition, London.     

                                        December 2001: ‘Boys and Girls – Girls and Boys’,

                                        Solo Exhibition, Gallery 73, Brighton.

                                        May 2001: ‘Beautiful Creatures’, Solo Exhibition,

                                        The Red Gate Gallery, London.

                                        September 2000: DFN Gallery, New York.

                                        June/May 2000: ‘Funky, vulgar media babes’, Solo Exhibition,

                                        The Global Café, London.

                                        Selected Group Exhibitions

                                        June 2005: 'Pink Week' - Female, Graham’s Fine Art Gallery,

                                        London.

                                        February 2005: 'Hard Bodies', with Corpus Fine Art,

                                        Arndean Gallery, Cork Street, London.

                                        December/November 2004: 'Pink Week' - Male, Graham’s

                                        Fine Art Gallery, London.

                                        October 2004: The Islington Contemporary Art & Design Fair

                                        2004, London; Hotbath Gallery, with the

                                        Society of Graphic Fine Art, Bath.

                                        September/July 2004: Lang Gallery, London;

                                        The Lotus Gallery, Bath.

                                        May 2004: Gallery 28, with the Society of Graphic Fine Art,

                                        Cork Street, London.

                                        January 2004/December 2003: Lang Gallery, London.

                                        November 2003: Royal College of Art Secret 2003,

                                        Royal College of Art, London.

                                        October 2003: ‘Drawing, the End of the Line’,

                                        Centre Culturel Jean Lurcat, Saint-Lo, France.

                                        October/September 2003: Hotbath Gallery, with the

                                        Society of Graphic Fine Art, Bath

                                        June 2003: Gallery 47, with the Society of Graphic Fine Art,

                                        London.

                                        February 2003: ‘My Valentine’s mascara’, A&D Gallery,

                                        London.

                                        October 2002: Hotbath Gallery, with the Society of Graphic

                                        Fine Art, Bath.

                                        August 2002: Museo Municipal Ourense, with Riverside Artists

                                        Group, Spain.

                                        June 2002: ‘Challenge the Nail’, Salon des Arts, London. 

                                        May/April 2002: The Start Gallery 2000, London.

                                        March 2002: Gallery 47, with the Society of Graphic Fine Art,

                                        London.

                                        March/February 2002: The Affordable Art Fair 2002, London.

                                        October 2001: The Start Gallery 2000, London.

                                        September 2001: Candid Arts Trust, London.

                                        August 2001: Hoax Gallery at the Lux Centre, London.

                                        July 2001: Espace Garden City Gallery, Paris; The Start

                                        Gallery 2000, London.

                                        April 2001: Candid Arts Trust, London.

                                        March 2001: Hotbath Gallery, with the Society of Graphic 

                                        Fine Art, Bath; Jelly Leg’d Chicken Gallery, Reading.

                                        February 2001: ‘Art on Paper’, Royal College of Art, London;

                                        Brighton Media Centre Gallery, Brighton.

                                        November 2000: ‘The Nude’, Karen Taylor Contemporary Art

                                        Gallery, Twickenham; Lauderdale House, with the Society of

                                        Graphic Fine Art, London.

                                        October 2000: The Affordable Art Fair 2000, London; Gallery

                                        Voltaire, London. 

                                        June 2000: ‘Women’, Hicks Gallery, London.

                                        February/January 2000: Jelly Leg'd Chicken Gallery,

                                        Reading.

                                        December/November 1999: ‘Off the shelf’, with Sherborne

                                        Contemporary Arts, Dorset.

                                        In 1996 my artwork was in the final selection for the

                                       ‘Prix Picasso’, Paris.

I have lived in a variety of countries - United Kingdom, France, Germany, Denmark, USA - and worked as a ballet dancer. An injury gave me the opportunity to pursue a career in art.

Coming from a theatrical and dance background, the consistent theme of my work is movement, which I translate on a visual pictorial level.

The movement of a body, voice or melody transgresses into sweeping mass of lines capturing the energy and beauty of the moving entity.

In a way, the act of drawing is choreographic; a drawn line is both a graphic entity and a physical movement that is at once spontaneous and precise, it is accomplished in one continuous movement. The pen hits the surface running and leaves it in the same fashion. My drawings consist of many such lines and movements, they combine selective thoughts on the observed with concern for the drawing as an entity in itself.I often like to combine my passion for drawing with collage, incorporating my fascination with materials.