Susan Young
About
Susan Young is a Malaysian born, British artist, working in London.
Her practice grounded in sculpture, has evolved as a conversation across installation, sound, photography, and craft processes.
She reflects on human behaviour, communication, and the body, at the juncture between psychological and physical.
She explores concepts of visibility and invisibility, examining emotions hidden under the surface and the interplay between what is concealed and what is revealed. By giving form to unseen vulnerabilities, she counterbalances perception and representation, fostering a sense of connection.
Young prompts us to lift the surface of our own lives, consider the systems we inhabit, question motivations and explore beyond appearances.
‘The Ceremony of Words’, is an immersive installation about the hidden, resultant anxiety caused by the difficulties in communication experienced by ADHD women. On entering one is confronted by a myriad of materials, layered line and two kilometres of string, looping, intersecting, and tangling together adding to confusion; the innumerable details to take in and process, replicating the constant buzz of thoughts and the struggle to focus, layered over a soundscape of birdsong and breaking tiles. The bodily hanging pieces resembling ovaries and fallopian tubes hint at the hereditary nature of neurodivergence, including hidden materials such as thirty-year-old shredded documents belonging to Young’s parents, inside outgrown ballet tights from Young’s daughter.
Recent Exhibitions include:
2024 Encounter Culture – APT Gallery, Deptford, London
2024 Second Nature – Tremenheere Sculpture Gardens, Penzance, Cornwall
2024 Uncharted Paths – Royal College of Art, London
2024 Freaks & Wonders Sideshow – Thames-side, London
2024 Rose is a rose is a rose – Finch Gallery, London
2024 Sixth Sense – Standpoint Gallery, Old Street, London
2023 Tangible – Material Gain – One Paved Court Gallery, Richmond, London
2023 Postcards From The Volcano – Thames-side Gallery, London
2022 Hard Times – Koppel X, Piccadilly, London
2022 Electric Art Car Boot Fair, King’s Cross, London
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