Bio

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 recently exhibited in “Only Connect” curated by Prof.

David Remfry RA in the Keepers House Royal Academy and VOLTA Basel.

Statement

A’Court’s practice explores the notion of the visual sublime working within painting, collage and drawing. She employs re-imagined landscapes as a trigger for encounter or contemplation.

Classical landscape and portrait references are reinterpreted in a new context, rendered in graphite on a variety of surfaces. The form, composition and materiality are constructed to summon a state of mind rather than a specific location. (Desire and Longing) Central to the work is an exploration of the human desire for solace in “numinous” experience. Her intention is to convey an ambiguous state that hovers the boundary between interior and exterior space holding a fragile synthesis of duality in place without conclusion opening up a door to something bigger.