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Sue Pedley

 Goddess mountain tofu shelter mosque Melati Buddhist temple 

 

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 Water colour, pencil & chinagraph, 9 drawings, each 14.4 x 20.5 cm 


Goddess mountain
tofu shelter
mosque Melati
Buddhist temple

Like the artists of pre-photographic times, I always travel with a sketch book. Those drawings are a record of my travels and may go on to become exhibited works. For example, drawings I made to record my travels to Gujarat (2013) and Norway (2014) were subsequently shown at Articulate Gallery under the title Soundlines (2014).
My recent drawings were made during an Indonesian Art Tour to the islands of Bali and Java, organised by 16 Albermarle Project Space. The Goddess mountain drawings were inspired by the rice Goddess Shridevi and the rice paddies on the foothills of Mt. Batukaru, in central Bali. Tofu shelter and mosque Melati were created on a two-day bus trip from Jakarta, via Bandung, Solo to Jogjakarta. On the way we visited Melati Suryodarmo, the renowned performance artist, in her studio situated in a village close to Solo. The Buddhist temple group began as blind contour drawings of Borobudur temple. A record of our last day in Java, they were completed in my Marrickville studio.

Artist profile

Sue Pedley is a visual artist living in Sydney, recognised for her multimedia installations, large scale drawings and collaborations. Responsive to the contingencies of the sites where she works, her recurring themes include the environmental degradation of water and its impact on communities and the natural world; colonisation, including addressing her family history as settlers in Tasmania.
Sue has collaborated with Phaptawan Suwannakudt in drawings, exhibited at Articulate Gallery and for the installation Line Work: Rivers of the Basin (2021) at Penrith Regional Gallery. Sue has worked in the Asian region for over twenty years – in Japan, China, Vietnam and Sri Lanka and has participated in the Echigo Tsumari Art Triennial (2006 & 2018) and Setouchi Triennial (2010), working closely with rural communities and volunteers.
Sue teaches drawing at Sydney College of the Arts and the School of Architecture, Building and Planning at Sydney University. https://suepedley.com.au
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