Collection: Sue Williams A’Court
Sue Williams A’Court was born in Lincolnshire in 1964. She studied BA Illustration at Brighton Polytechnic 1983-1986. She first made a name for herself as an illustrator. Her children’s book “Time for Telling” won the prestigious Smarties award in 1991.
Now a practicing painter working in London her work is in public and private collections globally. She was shortlisted for “The Columbia Threadneedle Prize” Mall Galleries in 2014. Other awards and prizes include: “FID” International Drawing Prize 2017; “The Jerwood Drawing Prize” selected by Kate Brindley, Michael Craig-Martin RA & Charlotte Mullins, Jerwood Space and tour 2013; Stage 2 “John Moores” 2014 ; “The National Art Open” 2015 selected by Hugie O’Donoghue RA, David Lister, Rebecca Hossack, Vanessa Branson & Amanda Harman; “The Open West“, Wilson Cheltenham Art Gallery Museum 2015, selected by Lyn Cluer Colman & Sarah Goodwin; “Royal Academy Summer Exhibition”, 2013 and 2015 selected by Anne Desmet RA & David Remfry RA. Solo shows include; ”Escape From Eden, Saachi Gallery London 2017; “I will meet you there”, Le Salon Vert, Geneva 2016, “Pulse NYC” as recipient of the “Pulse Prize” 2016, represented by Bo.Lee Gallery, The Metropolitan Pavilion New York City. She exhibited in “Only Connect” curated by Prof. David Remfry RA in the Keepers House Royal Academy and in “ Table of Elements” curated by Graham Crowley and Julian Perry. She was an invited artist in “Discerning Eye” 2021, curated by David RemfryRA, The Mall gallery and “Between the Bliss and me” 2021, Chelsea Arts Building Kings Road curated by James Elwes. Recent exhibitions include RA Summer Exhibition 2022 curated by Yinka Shonibare RA. And “Frequencies (for healing)”Confer Karnac Art Space Spitalfields curated by Hayley Lock. Future exhibitions include a Public Museum commissioned work “For the Love of the Master” Coach House Gallery Museum Dublin curated by Helen Bremer.
"In my work I see landscape not as a topographical record but as a medium to visually describe a state of mind. I reference and appropriate from historical landscapes to present them in a new context. In nature i feel my mind is more enticed into a state of reverie which takes me out of my analytical brain shifting to a more divergent focus. Im interested to explore these shifts in perspective and ways of being in my paintings. The tension between the figuration of the illusory landscape forms and the tactile more painterly background alludes to our unique human ability to hold contrasting mental states in the same psychological space, the relationship between the mind and the body and the possibility of transcendence."
