Qualified with a Master’s Degree in Fine Art, BA(Hons) Fine Art and a previous career in science and teaching, empowers the artist to deliver exciting art-science workshops fostering traditional drawing skills with observation of the real and the natural world. Susan Brisco aims to communicate an underpinning, meaningful message through her diverse outcomes and investigation.
Artist Information
Susan Brisco’s artistic processes and lines of inquiry sit at the boundary between art and science, where her outcomes embrace and explore interplays between drawing, film and sound. The natural world serves as her inspiration, especially scientific notions of plant sentience and communication, and compelling microscopic and macroscopic landscapes existing in nature’s unseen worlds. She is attracted to the familiar and real, through a poetic use of imagery, where observations are made over time or at extreme ends of the visible spectrum. Brisco searches for that special ‘hook’ which serves to inform and intrigue a curious audience.
Recent public projects funded by Creative Black Country include ‘The Seeing Small Microscope and Art Project’ where microscope observations of spring wild flower specimens created an array of intriguing watercolour studies possessing an abstract aesthetic of spring’s colour-pallet and The Beyondness of Bees Project where microscope drawing, and stitch studies were brought together to explore the secret magnified wonderment of bees. Each project culminated with a fascinating public exhibition of outcomes.