SUSAN WARNER KEENE
Paper Artist
Vision
SUSAN WARNER KEENE uses the papermaking process to explore points of contact between the conceptual and the material, hoping to attune a viewer’s imagination to new possibilities. The form of language and the nature of paper itself have formed the basis for several series of works, providing the means to examine the nature of the page as a created space charged with potential.
Susan is a Toronto-based artist working in handmade paper who has been exhibiting in Canada and internationally since 1980. Her work is in the collection of the Canadian Museum of History and the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development, as well as many other public, corporate, and private collections. In addition to her gallery exhibitions and commission work, Susan has been active as an educator, writer, editor and curator in association with such organizations as Sheridan College School of Craft & Design, the Ontario Crafts Council and the Textile Museum of Canada. In 1991 she was presented with the Prix Saidye Bronfman Award for Excellence in the Crafts (a Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts) in recognition of her work and her contribution to the development of the crafts in Canada. She was elected to the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts in 2005.
Website: www.susanwarnerkeene.com
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