After completing her Master of Fine Arts at Dunedin School of Art in 2017 Susan set up a workshop in which she continues her exploration of the body, the psyche, and states of being through jewellery. She engages with a variety of materials giving voice to both their energy and her own.
Susan saw Handshake 6 as a way to stay connected with the jewellery community post Art School, push her boundaries and meet others who were similarly motivated. Being able to choose a mentor was a wonderful opportunity provided by the program. Having admired the work of Iris Eichenberg for several years Susan had no hesitation in requesting Iris as her mentor.
Susan Videler‘s posts:
Words with Iris Eichenberg
Yesterday I had my Zoom meeting with Iris, I had been putting it off because the work was not flowing. As those of you who were at the masterclass this year will know, she sees into your very jewellery soul, which is at once disconcerting and a relief. These meetings...
Dying and Drawing
I wish to show with the following photographs how salient colour is when making work. As I said in my previous blog, as a result of answers to questions about colour with regard to anxiety, I experimented with dyes, on bone, silks and wood. ...
Untying knots in my thinking
At the conclusion of the second Zoom meeting when we were in lockdown level one, I asked folk to respond to questions about stress/anxiety. Overwhelmingly the colours associated were red and black, a rogue vomit brown, navy and mustard appeared also. Tentacles and...
Limbo Land
Limbo land. For the first two weeks of lockdown I was in an odd state of mental paralysis. Partly as a result of an anxiety attack about the looming effects of Covid-19 a week before lockdown, and coming to terms with not travelling to Melbourne for my daughters 30th...
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