Dr. Susan Fereday is an Australian artist, writer, curator, researcher and educator. She currently lives and works in Australia and Germany.
In her art practice, Fereday uses a range of media, including digital and analogue photography, installation, video, light and shadow. She is best known for her 'post-photographic' installations in which simple materials (papier-mâché spheres, glass bowls and goblets, light and shadow) are employed to invoke the logic of photography without the use of traditional photographic means. She also exhibits found photographs, such as the series Under a Steel Sky, in which her collection of amateur snapshots from the 1950s resembles Robert Frank’s series, The Americans.
'I am fascinated by the metaphorical space of photography and its uncanny resonances,' she says.
Fereday’s research centres around photography as a system of knowledge. Research interests
Described as a lively and intelligent speaker, she is available for speaking engagements, lectures, assessments, student consultations and critiques. Sample lecture topics. Her preferred approach to writing is imaginative and speculative rather than analytic. Sample catalogue essay.