Susan J Hart/ Women Art

Susan J Hart is an English mixed media sculptor and poet, whose work is a personal reflection on socio-emotional life experience. Working predominantly with wire and clay, she investigates the complexities of emotional wellbeing through a fusion of figurative sculpture and poetry, combining media elements to reflect emotion, or to create tension, contrast and uncertainty.

In this particular body of work, she examines the concept of the 'comfort zone', represented as a tangible space with which figures are fused, alluding to their dependence upon it, and their unwillingness or inability to vacate it. Hart graduated with an MA from Birmingham School of Art, UK in the late 1980s and was awarded the Emma Jessie Phipps Bequest, thereafter continuing her practice whilst exhibiting in the UK and curating her first solo show alongside a teaching residency in Leeds. Now based in North Lincolnshire UK, she continues to exhibit both in the UK and internationally, and was awarded 'Artist of The Season 2024' by ART from HEART, London UK.