Sue Ninham is a contemporary visual artist and educator, bringing 23 years of studio and exhibiting experience to her professional practice. Her multi-disciplinary approach underpins a continued commitment to experimental creativity and materiality. Sue’s work explores themes of isolation, introspection, transformation, and healing.
As an abstract artist, Sue creates intuitively, finding the absence of representation emotionally challenging yet intellectually stimulating. Her creative process is rooted in abandonment, play and experimentation. This approach has led her to develop a distinct and personally expressive visual language using form, space, colour, and texture, conveying ideas that are both reminiscent and ambiguous in their communication.
Whilst primarily a drawer and painter, Sue’s recent practice has expanded to incorporate textiles in the production of wearable art pieces. This evolution underscores her ongoing artistic exploration and willingness to push beyond the boundaries of established creative practice.
As part of Neoterica 2024 Sue created a large installation comprising 100 monoprints. The artwork’s spontaneously created parts connected in various ways to suggest a contrived pattern, directly triggering her idea to transform elements of it into patterned, printed fabric designs. Sue recently completed a CreateSA funded Professional Development mentored project under the guidance of Simone Tippett to learn and develop skills in repeat pattern design and fabric screening techniques.
Creating beautifully crafted, themed Art Frocks incorporating her printed fabric designs for paying clients represents the next phase of her career as an artist.
