Sue Kennington MFA, Professor of Painting (Intermediate and Advanced)
Sue Kennington is a London born painter whose work addresses the use of colour and human touch as an expressive medium.
She received her MFA in Fine Art from Goldsmiths College, London in 2002, and her BA in Painting from Chelsea College, London in 1994. In 1996 her work featured in ‘Newcontemporaries’ at Tate Liverpool and the Camden Arts Centre, London, and she had her first solo show in the UK at the Morley Gallery in London in 1997. She has been teaching a colour workshop based on Josef Albers work for the past 6 years.
Recent exhibitions include: ‘Three Painters’ at Belgrave Gallery, St Ives, ‘Frame Structure’ at Galleria la Veronica, Modica, Sicily, Premio Celeste Finalists show , in Firenze and and ‘Oh!Nirica’ at Galleria Otto in Firenze. She received a travel grant from the Arts Council, in 2006 and was awarded a residency at the Milchof in Berlin. She currently lives, works and exhibits in both London and Italy.
Kennington’s own work explores how colour can be used as a visual language, using touch, geometry and the totally random to arrive at a visible solution.
“I work by devising systems and anti-systems, and embed them into the material, juxtaposing elements that contain opposing forces. The work is made fast, and is resolved when these elements fuse in some way, but still show their contrariness. I have a deep mistrust of systems. I am more interested in the intuitive as a creative source.”
Projects 2011 Tutor - Pittura e Disegno - Siena Art Institute 2006 Milchhof/ACAVA Residency Berlin 2001 Winchester Theatre Royal Southern Arts Commission 1997 - 2006 Teaching Colour Workshop at Centro Dedalo, Italy
Awards 2004 British Council Travel Award 1998 Florence Trust Studio Award
Publications 2007 Frame Structure text by Marta Casati 1997 Sue Kennington Nuove Grafiche, Perugia, Italy
