23.3.18 - 8.4.18
Since establishing herself as an artist on the rise, Susan Badcock’s hand-coloured fine art photography has moved from strength to strength and her latest series, The Upside to the Down, is no exception.
Susan’s signature style is prevalent – exquisite photography stripped of colour and delicately reintroduced by hand in the method of yesteryear. However, she continues to push boundaries to create works that are at once a celebration of form and balance, as well as a commentary on societal expectations.
In a compositional extension of her Road Kill series, The Upside to the Down is a combination of singular stems and bouquets of summer blooms suspended upside down, floating in freefall and unhindered by distractions. Deliberately flummoxing, Susan references the topsy-turvy world we inhabit and the highs that come with the lows. “There is always a positive to the negative” she says.
While Susan’s trademark muted pastels are evident, she has pushed the oil paints to introduce an element of frosted bronze, pioneering a sense of sculpture and a celebration of form. Once again, Susan has referenced the traditional techniques of hand-coloured photography, conveying her passion and respect for tradition while employing thoroughly contemporary ideology in a series that will appeal to a wide patronage