A multi-media artist with a focus on sculpture, Susanna (Anna) Candlin had a successful career as a classical violinist before changing direction and pursuing a degree in Fine Art at the University of Hertfordshire. She supports her artistic practice by teaching music and examining for the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music. She has participated in many group exhibitions, including Carbon Culture in the UH Gallery in 2020 and Unpacked at Courtyard Arts, Hertford, in 2022. Her sculpture Nexus was recently accepted into the Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy of Art.

Exploring the boundaries between self and other, Candlin’s work is concerned with the intertwined symbiosis of the human and nonhuman. The membranes between entities are blurred and permeable: feminine into masculine, human into flora, inside into outside; and many sculptures merge into their surroundings. The result is hybridity, weirdness and a biomorphic otherness. The works are located so that viewers can explore their apertures and cavities, connecting them with secret worlds. The materials used are humble and mundane: cardboard-mâché, plaster and off-cut textiles. The works are often hollow casts containing a memory of the original object, and their material presence cannot be divorced from a corresponding absence. The use of mainly recycled and repurposed materials creates as little impact on the environment as possible. In the present disintegration of the natural world, the artist believes that visual art can play a role in transforming the way humans interrelate with the ‘more-than-human’

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Website: susannacandlin.com
Instagram: @susannacandlin
Email: susiecandlin@gmail.com
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