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SusanHaire

   
Role
Fine Artist/Set Designer
 
Profile
Susan Haire makes installation paintings for specific gallery spaces, often working in series and on a large-scale; she has had numerous one-person exhibitions with at least one a year since 1998.

Haire titles her shows before she begins work, so her paintings are themed but they are also chance-based; she normally works on paper on the floor pouring and bleeding, using a hair dryer, washing off partially dried paint.

Haire collaborates regularly with composers (and also often with poets and a playwright). Performances take place amongst the paintings and recordings of the music play throughout the exhibition, constituting a significant part of the installation. This broad experience with collaboration accords perfectly with the Rebus Touring Arts La Vita Nuova production, for which she plans to make a series of large-scale hanging-scrolls, working with Dante’s notions of the dance being a metaphor for love; coincidentally, the paintings in her last show (June 2006) also used dance as a metaphor.

Haire is currently collaborating with New York composer, Stephen Dydo who, as a specialist in ancient Chinese music, introduced her to the possibility of painting hanging-scrolls. They are working on two projects, one directly influenced by their involvement with the La Vita Nuova project, which they hope to show in late 2007.