Gallery 3
‘Misplaced’
20 May - 31 May 2026
Opening night
22 May | 6 - 8 pm
Gallery Hours:
Wednesday – Sunday: 10 am – 5 pm (please note last day of exhibition ends at 3pm)
ARTIST STATEMENT
Through the prism of childhood memory and imagination, ‘Misplaced’ continues Susan Stevenson’s exploration of Australian colonial history and Settler attitudes to the landscape.
Her increasingly abstract and minimal work was transformed after a road trip to Western Queensland as anthropomorphic figurative elements inserted themselves unexpectedly into the scratchy, scrubby, often brilliantly red landscapes. Corrugated iron, blowing around the back blocks like discarded ideas, became a metaphor for the decline of Australian rural life. That marginal country, where her grandparents had lived and both Stevenson and her mother were born, is the site of her extended family’s past and the melancholic images are suddenly very personal.
ARTIST BIOGRAPHY
Susan Stevenson is a Naarm/Melbourne-based artist. She has had solo shows in London, Sydney and Melbourne and been part of numerous group shows. She has been a finalist in several art prizes, including, most recently, the Hadley Art Prize 2025, the Omnia Prize 2025 and Omnia Prize 2026. Her work is included in private collections in Australia, New Zealand, U.K. and Europe.
CV
Born Charleville Queensland
Raised and educated Brisbane, Canberra, Hobart
Lived and worked Sydney, London, Melbourne
Susan has worked in different mediums including film, photography, painting and mixed media.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025 TacitArt Melbourne ‘Waiting for Rain’
2024 TacitArt Melbourne ‘Ghosts in the Cement’
2022 Gallery550 Melbourne & Duckrabbit Sydney “Found, Wanting”
2020 & 2021 TacitArt Melbourne “After Life”
2018 TacitArt Melbourne “Invisible Country”
2015 Studio show Melbourne “History Wars”
2012 Purgatory Gallery Melbourne “White Women’s Business”
2005 Dickerson Gallery Melbourne “My Grandmothers’ Furs”
1990 Alternative Arts London WC1
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025/26 Madeline Gordon Gallery Launceston
2025 Finalist Hadley’s Art Prize
2025 Finalist OMNIA Art Prize
2024 Finalist Doyle’s Art Awards Qld
2023 Substrate23 Tacitart Melbourne
2021 Finalist National Capital Art Prize Canberra ACT
2019 Finalist John Villiers Outback Art Prize Winton Qld
2012 & 2013 Chapman & Bailey Belle Arte prize Melbourne