Education
2008 - 2010 Oil Painting Program (Technique & Historical Principles),Charlie Sheard School
2002 - 2004 Bachelor of Fine Arts (Foundation, Year 2), National Art School, Sydney
1997 - 2001 Drawing, Figurative Drawing, Grant Macewan College, Edmonton, Canada
1994 Faculty of Illustration and Design (Exchange Program), University of Brighton, England
1992 - 95 Bachelor of Design Hons. (Visual Communications),University of Technology, Sydney
Solo Exhibitions
2011 Odyssey, Charles Hewitt Gallery, Darlinghurst, Sydney, Australia
2010 Landscape and Memory, Gallery 307, Northbridge, Sydney, Australia
2006 Sights, Lights and Lines, Xavier Art Space, St Vincent’s Public Hospital, Sydney
2005 Vessels, Gallery 307, Northbridge, Sydney, Australia
Group Exhibitions
2011 Something Personal 2, Charles Hewitt Gallery, Darlinghurst, Sydney
2011 Noun Collective Exhibition, Gaffa Gallery, Sydney
2010 Sixteen Degrees, Charles Hewitt Gallery, Darlinghurst, Sydney
2010 Six Appeal: Painters from the Blue Mountains, BAS Blackheath
2010 The Studio, Art Sydney, Royal Hall of Industry, Fox Studios, Sydney
2009 A Murder of Crows, Gaffa Gallery, Surry Hills, Sydney
2009 New Paintings, Gallery 307, Northbridge, Australia
2007 Featured Artist, Gallery Blackheath, Blackheath
2006 Art Sydney 06, Represented by Gallery 307, Northbridge
2006 Group Show, Gallery 307, Northbridge
2005 Art Sydney 05, Represented by Gallery 307, Northbridge
2005 Featured Artist, Gallery Blackheath, Blackheath
2002 Fonas Infusion, Salon des Refuses, Stairwell Gallery, National Art School, Sydney
1992 Art Express AGNSW, Opening Night Wearable Art Display, Art Gallery of NSW
Awards
2011 Northbridge Art Prize First Prize (Works on Canvas), Gallery 307, Northbridge
2011 NSW Parliament PleinAir Painting Prize, Finalist, NSW Parliament, Sydney
2011 Blackheath Art Society Winter Open, Highly Commended, BAS Blackheath, NSW
2010 Blackheath Art Society Members Prize, 1st Prize, BAS, Blackheath, NSW
2008 Blackheath Art Prize, 2nd Prize, BAS, Blackheath, NSW
2007 Willoughby City Art Prize, Finalist, Willoughby Civic Centre, Sydney
2005 Willoughby City Art Prize, Finalist, Willoughby Civic Centre, Sydney
2004 Contempo 7, First Prize, Blackheath Art Society, Blackheath
2002 John Olsen Life Drawing Prize, Finalist, National Art School, Sydney

Artists Thoughts 2010 – Susie Dureau
“The artist should paint not only what he sees before him, but also what he sees within himself ... if he sees nothing within himself, he should also forgo painting what he sees before him” Casper David Friedrich
ON THE SHIFTING MEANING OF THE LANDSCAPE
That which we bring to the landscape in terms of shifting social, cultural, philosophical and political interpretation confounds any clearly defined concept. The natural world can be understood in many ways. Simultaneously it is has shared meaning (we all inhabit the earth) and an intensely personal meaning (we each bring different associations and memories to our understanding of it). For some, the landscape is about the built environment, for some it is pastoral land, and for some it is inextricably linked to ancestors.
ON PAINTING THE LANDSCAPE; REPRESENTATION AND TRUTH
Paintings are appropriations as much as creations – taking and altering the motif is inherent in the artist’s process of seeing and interpreting. Paintings are never completely about their subject.  In translating the model to painting, one naturally manipulates the ‘reality’ to the point where it becomes as much about the physical structure of medium as the subject. In between these two things there is a world of possible associations for the viewer. The metaphorical fog rolls in. Subject matter is the architecture of the image itself.
‘It’s a complicated conceptual thing that artists have been struggling with over the course of the 20thC and modernity –His paintings are about paintings –they show a relevance to right now – a clarity in the history of image making without feeling redundant or derivative in any way – his works are steeped in art history’