Susan Reddrop
Subliminal
The Barn Gallery
12th of January - 5th of February 2023

The exhibition can be viewed during Montsalvat opening hours:

Thursday - Sunday 10:00am - 4:00pm

CLOSING CELEBRATION: Saturday the 4th of February at 3:00pm - 5:00pm.

All welcome, free event - RSVP below to attend.

Subliminal alludes to the hidden meanings that underlie each series of works completed since 2009 to the present day.  The latest series, Octopus Garden is an installation still growing and evolving so considered ‘a work in progress’.

Except for the hanging works which are blown glass, all other works in this show are made from Australian sourced Lead Crystal (Blackwood Crystal by James Thompson) and made here on site at Montsalvat using the ‘lost wax casting process’.  Susan’s studio is currently in Matcham Skipper’s old bronze foundry. You can visit her studio by appointment or look through the windows anytime.

Susan trained in sculpture at the Victorian College of the Arts and completed her honours year in glass at Monash University. She previously won a scholarship to undertake a Master of Arts in Criminology at the University of Melbourne and published a book before returning to her first passion which was sculpture.  She grew up locally and much of her family still reside in the local area.

Susan has been at Montsalvat since 2006 as a volunteer, was an artist in residence 2009, secured a longer-term studio in 2010 and moved into the old bronze foundry (now also the glass foundry) in 2012.  She was a finalist in the Nillumbik Prize twice, the Cancer Council Art Awards, Human Rights Arts Awards, Mandorla Prize, Haven Public Art Prize, Lorne Sculpture Biennale, Rookwood ‘Hidden’ Sculpture Prize, Blue thumb Sculpture Award, Deakin University Contemporary Small Sculpture Award and City of Ryde Women’s Art Prize.  She won the Shopfront Art Prize in the Lorne Sculpture Biennale and was for a time represented by MARS Gallery, appearing in a TV art documentary with Hannah Gadsby and was also a feature artist on the back page of the Age (Arts section).

Susan recently returned from the famous Pilchuck International Glass School in Seattle, USA where she received a scholarship and is exploring options for an upcoming show in France in 2024.

Susan Reddrop, Magenta Tentacles, Cast Lead Crystal, mixed dimensions

Susan Reddrop, Clam, Cast Lead Crystal, mixed dimensions

Susan Reddrop, Clam, Cast Lead Crystal, mixed dimensions