Biography
          
Suzanne Moxhay (b. 1976, Essex) lives and works in London.  After completing a BA Hons in Painting at Chelsea College of Art she went on to The Royal Academy Schools where she graduated with a Post Graduate Diploma in Fine Art in 2007.

She was then selected for a year long residency at the Florence Trust Studios, London where she developed her series of photographic works ‘Borderlands’.

She has exhibited widely, both nationally and internationally since 2002 and her work is  held in many significant public and private collections including the Univeristy of the Arts Collection, The Cooper Union New York, the FSC and the Lodeveans Collection.

Recent exhibitions include ‘GSK Contemporary: Earth Art of a Changing World’ at the Royal Academy of Arts, and ‘The Wild as Will and Mediation’, Wiebke Morgan, London. Her animation work has been shown as part of the programme ‘Do Billboards Dream of Electric Screens?’ on BBC public screens in cities across the UK.
She is currently a Print Fellow at the Royal Academy Schools.

Artist Statement

The distortion of photographic imagery is a theme carried through my current work.  Through a restless reprocessing of found imagery I create environments that become detached from the photographic, that exist in a space between photography and the staged or theatrical. 

The heightened panoramic views created in recent work recall the cinematic wide shot, suggesting that they could be taken from the establishing or closing sequence of a film.  There is a deliberate play on the scale and depth of each element, which appear to hover between the miniature and the epic.

The worlds depicted in the work reference film genre iconography, such as the Western, the Sci Fi and the Horror.  I find parallels between the world of the National Geographic Magazine and other such publications, and the fictionalised worlds depicted in film.

Each image is derived from a three dimensional collage of cut- outs sourced from an extensive archive of collected material, mainly imagery from the 1950s to 1970s.  From the photograph, to the print, to the three dimensional set in the studio, and then back to the photograph, imagery is continually moved through real and illusory space.  The idealised, whilst dystopian environments created then exist in a space between different fields of representation whilst also embodying a reality of their own.

Suzanne Moxhay lives and works in London, UK.

For a text written on Suzanne's work by curator Paul Bayley, click here.