Susan Norrie 'No. 16 Series B' architecture

Susan Norrie 'No. 16 Series B' architectureSusan Norrie is a highly respected Australian artist. She works with painting, film and installation, investigating environmental, geological and socio political issues. In No. 16 Series B a stencil screen print on canvas her wryness lands on preposterous power. Against a lacquered gold backdrop, a crowned man balances atop two wine bottles. Norrie pokes fun at the legitimacy of monarchs, transforming the king into an absurd, precarious jester. For

Signed: Partially signed lower left corner and inscribed 44

as though an allegory stirs between the water and its prey

represents a singular voice in Australia’s cultural life

Signed: Signed with initials CB

The final edition was in sepia tones

Part of a print exchange between 50 Victorian artists

Perhaps most striking however

Painted in his Port Fairy Studio

Quintessential Blackman

In spite of the seeming compositional complexity and saturated colour palette

'Bird Face' 1965

'The Dedicated Photographer