Susan Boafo

   
Phone: 01326 316590 www.axisweb.org
e mail: sue.boafo@falmouth.ac.uk  
 

Title Speaking with the Sun
Medium Digital Video Projection and Photographic Print
Dimensions Variable

Title Hybrid Perpetual 2
Medium Photographic Print
Dimensions Variable

Title Speaking with the Sun
Medium Digital Video Projection and Photographic Print
Dimensions Variable


Through my photography, I’ve explored stories of botany, empire and identity.
Videos, photo-sculpture, and an artist’s book express thoughts on genetics and notions of oneness.
Now exploring Earth’s ecology through artworks created by microorganisms during photosynthesis.


Selected solo exhibitions
2006Speaking With the Sun – Chapeau Rouge. Brittany, France.
2004An Infinity of Things - Plymouth Arts Centre.


Selected group exhibitions

2006 Artful Ecologies: Art Nature and Environment – University College Falmouth.
2004 Hortus: Botany and Empire - An international group exhibition commissioned by SPACEX and touring to the Liverpool Biennial.
2004 Multiples and Art Objects - Newlyn Art Gallery.
2003 Garden Delights - Falmouth Art Gallery.
2001 Obsession - Newlyn Art Gallery.
2000 Newlyn Society of Artists Summer Exhibition - Newlyn Art Gallery.

Commissions
Date 2002
Field of Vision - Tremenheere Sculpture Park, West Cornwall.

Awards
Date 2007 Winner - Daily Telegraph 'Visions of Science and Technology Photographic Awards. http://www.visionsofscience.co.uk/shortlist/viewimage.cfm?id=555
2006 Art Council England - Grants for the Arts Award