Susan Flavell

Susan Flavell has a passion for sculpture and more than 30 years experience making, teaching, and exhibiting. Her first memories are as a small child in Central America, in British Honduras now called Belize, of Mexico, and the ruins of Aztec and Mayan civilisations. 

The vast majority of the materials Flavell now uses are recycled, found, gifted and second hand. These materials are ordinary but they: 

1. Can have a holding power because of the particular moment and circumstance in which they come into a person’s life.
2. Are intrinsically evocative / uncanny objects that draw and repel us.
3. Have properties that belong to childhood and the blurry line between self and objects. 
4. Have power because of their provenance (who may have touched or owned them).

FEATURED WORK

2021

Crowns for the apocalypse. The future of our children and the environment is under threat and yet we do nothing. If we don’t change how we live, radically, then the future is bleak. Flavell uses recycled, found, gifted and second hand materials which seem ordinary but:

1. Have a holding power because of how or
when they come into a person’s life.
2. Are evocative / uncanny objects both
drawing and repelling.
3. Have properties that belong to childhood
where boundaries between self and objects
are blurred.
4. Have the power of provenance
(who touched or owned them).