Susie Green: Queen Green

A new exhibition of works by artist Susie Green, inspired by her residency at Dalby Forest in the North Yorks Moors and Scarborough Museums Trust archives.

Image shows a section of the white trellis that holds the collaged shaped hybrid body shape; the shape has a purple hat, green skin, and black eyes. In the background visible through the gaps in the trellis are susie’s drawings hung on the wall.

Queen Green (detail), Susie Green: Queen Green, Woodend Gallery, Courtesy of the artist and Crescent Arts, 2021

Susie Green: Queen Green

When: November 20 – February 27 2022
Where: Woodend Gallery, The Crescent, Scarborough, YO11 2PW
Opening times: Tuesday – Friday, 10am-5pm. Saturday and Sunday, 10am-4pm.
Free entry

Queen Green is an exhibition of new works by artist Susie Green inspired by her residency at Dalby Forest in the North Yorks Moors. The exhibition celebrates erotic encounters with nature, and moments of confidence and fragility, growth and decay, lightness and dark. Works on paper and large cut-out mixed forms mounted onto wooden trellis portray powerful, blossoming, shapeshifting bodies. 

The exhibition explores the concept of the word ‘Viriditas’, used by German Benedictine Abbess, writer, composer and mystic Hildegard von Bingen in the Middle Ages. ‘Viriditas’ means greenness, freshness, vitality, fruitfulness, or growth and was used by Hildegard to describe divine nature when talking about the human spirit and the natural world. Hildegard’s illustrated religious visions, choral music and her rare recorded words have served as an inspiration. The exhibition asks the audience to think about who the works in Queen Green portray: the natural world and it’s grand, regal forms, or the artist herself and her fantasy world?

Green’s research at the Scarborough Museums Trust archive during her residency gave her access to the nationally important William J Clarke Charm Collection. Clark, who was a former keeper of The Rotunda Museum in Scarborough was a collector of charms and folklore from around the world. His rare collection of objects and its link between the natural world and spirituality heavily influence Green’s work in this exhibition. Archive images of Woodend, former home of the Sitwell family, with trellis mounted on the walls were used to design the displays, allowing the audience to explore the exhibition with their senses.

Queen Green is supported by Crescent Arts, Scarborough Museums Trust, Arts Council England and Forestry England.

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Download a large print version of the exhibitioh guide here.

Access
Venue is wheelchair accessible, with accessible bathroom and changing facilities. For more information about the venue head to the Woodend website: https://www.woodendcreative.co.uk  Large print captions are available from the front desk at Woodend.

Covid Updates:

Masks are still recommended to wear unless exempt, social distancing and regular hand sanitizing are both still strongly advised. For more information view our full Covid update here.

Workshops and events:

In conversation with Susie Green and Dr. Amy Tobin
November 20 2021
2pm – 3pm, Woodend Creative Space
Find out more

white trellis panels placed in a gallery space, one is off in the background, and one is further to the camera in the foreground. The first one has the silhouette of a simple head shape crafted into the trellis, the second is in a very simple four-petal flower shape. Adjacent to the trellises are some drawings framed on the wall, only a few are visible from the camera angle. On the trellis the artist has hung shapes made out of tissue paper, connected by red rope, each paper shape has been made by applying wet tissue and paint to paper and then cut out to make soft pastel-coloured shapes. The pieces on the trellis have been hung to resemble a hybrid form. The trellis in the background is shown in the same way, but with a more floral looking abstract piece hung in the trellis gaps.
Image shows a section of the white trellis that holds the collaged shaped hybrid body shape; the shape has a purple hat, green skin, and black eyes. In the background visible through the gaps in the trellis are susie’s drawings hung on the wall.
[ID: Image shows a gallery space, in the foreground an empty trellis is shown which has the shape of the top of a pineapple, in the background the other trellises are visible through the gallery archway. Watercolour illustrations are dotted around the walls in the gallery space.]
Image shows a drawing by Susie, the drawing is reminiscent of a dandelion in bloom, under that are abstract shapes which are visible and appear as things like breasts and shoes. The drawing is watercolour and a brilliant soft pastel colour, cloudy and soft in texture.
Image shows a series of eight watercolour illustrations on a gallery wall they are all hung in glass frames that are slightly elevated off the wall.
[ID: Image shows two purple swirls that have been cut out of paper, they have a crinkled texture to them. Under that is a small yellow butterfly shape, there are holes in each piece and red cord runs through each hole, connecting each piece together.]
white trellis panels placed in a gallery space, one is off in the background, and one is further to the camera in the foreground. The first one has the silhouette of a simple head shape crafted into the trellis, the second is in a very simple four-petal flower shape. Adjacent to the trellises are some drawings framed on the wall, only a few are visible from the camera angle. On the trellis the artist has hung shapes made out of tissue paper, connected by red rope, each paper shape has been made by applying wet tissue and paint to paper and then cut out to make soft pastel-coloured shapes. The pieces on the trellis have been hung to resemble a hybrid form. The trellis in the background is shown in the same way, but with a more floral looking abstract piece hung in the trellis gaps.
Image shows a section of the white trellis that holds the collaged shaped hybrid body shape; the shape has a purple hat, green skin, and black eyes. In the background visible through the gaps in the trellis are susie’s drawings hung on the wall.
[ID: Image shows a gallery space, in the foreground an empty trellis is shown which has the shape of the top of a pineapple, in the background the other trellises are visible through the gallery archway. Watercolour illustrations are dotted around the walls in the gallery space.]
Image shows a drawing by Susie, the drawing is reminiscent of a dandelion in bloom, under that are abstract shapes which are visible and appear as things like breasts and shoes. The drawing is watercolour and a brilliant soft pastel colour, cloudy and soft in texture.
Image shows a series of eight watercolour illustrations on a gallery wall they are all hung in glass frames that are slightly elevated off the wall.
[ID: Image shows two purple swirls that have been cut out of paper, they have a crinkled texture to them. Under that is a small yellow butterfly shape, there are holes in each piece and red cord runs through each hole, connecting each piece together.]

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