About
Susanne Butcher
The Danish abstract artist Susanne Butcher works mainly in painting, drawing and sculpture. Her art is coloristic and expressive with a choice of different motifs.
Through her work, Butcher explores human interaction with each other, based on the feelings our various relationships give us. She delivers art that has a personal point of departure.
History
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Born 1966, Haderslev Denmark
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Educated as Recreation Centre Teacher, Åbenrå College, 1992
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Qualified Instructor of Conflict Management, 2004
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Postgraduate Degree in Visual Arts, 2006
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Employed for 8 years as Teacher specializing in aesthetics and Visual Art at The Children’s Psychiatric Hospital, Risskov in Denmark
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Autodidact Artist since 2008
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The figurative elements in the paintings are presented at once, via tight control and with a penchant for letting the subconscious be the supporting element that leaves a colouristic, expressive and organic expression.
In this way, the works open up the viewer's own interpretations of impressions, and become relevant for those who want to immerse themselves and look inward at the processes of their own lives.
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Artist Susanne Butcher works persistently and process-oriented with her art. She translates her own references and interprets elements in life from her own perspective and inner life, in pictorial expressions.
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She has slowly worked her way into the art scene, through a continuous and focused work. With great patience and respect for delivering art that has a personal starting point, she has built collaboration with galleries, colleagues and customers at home and abroad.
Her work process applies many layers, colours and techniques that complement each other and stand out in different forms and characters, according to light source and the observer’s eye, state of mind and approach to the work.
The paintings appear at first intuitive, but the artist’s prior reflections are also evident, through which the precise physical expression and composition ensure completion of the picture corresponding to the artist’s mental plane.
Susanne Butcher:
”The intention of my work is to create a dialogue between the observer and the picture. That the person seeing the picture is forced to take a stand, to be disturbed, to be confronted by feelings that either carry the observer on a journey through new experiences in the gamut of emotions, or to a place of previous, familiar conditions of the mind.
I am interested in the mental mechanisms of mankind and the basis of our actions. In my work I attempt to unveil what happens in us, beneath the civilized façade.
The pictures seek to release associations that are universal and timeless.
My contention is that vanity and frailty will not allow us to reveal our inner emotional chaos. Happiness, confusion, despondency, greed, jealousy, envy, inadequacy, anxiety, savagery and amusement are some of the feelings we try to manage behind the façade.
Humour and ironic self insight are essential survival strategies. It is our way of grasping our joys and sorrows, doubts and insecurities. It is important to me that that part of our being is indirectly represented in my work”.
Exhibitions
2024
Nørhalne Viser Kunst - Art Fair
ARTICULATE Magazine - International Art Publication Platform in Denmark
2023
Galleri Haraldur.eu, Charlottenlund – SOLO
Restaurant De2Have – Decoration Fair
Gallery Grenen - Grenen Art Museum
Pavillonen Grenaa - SOLO
Fredericia Art festival
2022
Open Studio Gallery Grenen - Grenen Art Museum
Works Art Fair
Fængslet Horsens
Book Release & Art exhibition Det Borende X
Formland Little Odder Speakers
Nyaaben Art - Børglum Monastery
Gallery Grenen - Grenen Art Museum
2021
TETRA PAK Højbjerg
KP The Artist's Easter Exhibition, Kunsthal Aarhus
Fængslet Horsens
2020
Fængslet Horsens
KS2020 JANUS Vestjyllands Art Centre
KP2020 The Artist's Easter Exhibition
Motherbrain Records, Record cover illustration
2019
2018
Boarding School Jubilee Exhibition
Fængslet Horsens
Easter Exhibition at Midtjyllands Art Centre
School Art Association MIDT-VEST
KFA Locomotive Workshop, Copenhagen
Autumn Exhibition Midtjyllands Art Centre
2017
RETHINK European Culture Capital 2017, Aarhus
Fængslet Horsens
Gallery Halmtorvet, Easter and Jubilee Exhibition
The Censured Exhibition, Mississippi
SkyByART, Skejby University Hospital
Group Exhibition POWERSPOTS
2016
Art Association Limfjorden's censured exhibition, Struer
Grenå Art and music Association - Pavillonen,
Rynkeby Cancer Fund fundraising exhibition,
Godsbanen Aarhus
PAPER Gallery Dencker+Schneider Copenhagen.
Dronning Lund Palace Easter Exhibition
Fængslet Horsens
2015
Mariager History Museum - Group Exhibition
'Sct Olaf' Art Association - New Year Solo
FÆNGSLET Horsens
Easter Exhibition with Jørgen Winther Waring at Gallery Art Corner
Exhibition with Sculptor Hans Christian Stenkilde at 'Jensens Framing and Art Trading' and Filips Stonemasonry at Horsens
Live performance at Gallery Art Expo Hørning
Donation and auction for Team Rynkeby at Comwell Aarhus
2014
Fængslet Horsens
Group exhibition at Åby Parish Art Association
Solo exhibition at Gallery Himmerland
Group exhibition at Gallery Tornby
Group exhibition at Gallery Art EXPO
Gallery Art Corner 40 year's Jubilee Exhibition
2013
Gallery Tornby Autumn Exhibition
Made by Arts, Vejle Spinderihallerne
Lisbjerg Parish Art Association
Gallery Art Corner, Randers group exhibition
Djurslands Gallery Solo Exhibition
Gallery Himmerland Easter exhibition
Gallery Himmerland solo Whitsun exhibition
NIRAS Aarhus
ARTEXPO Hørning
2012
Rotary Art Fair Horsens
Gallery Art Corner, Randers solo exhibition
Gallery Kunstcentrum, Silkeborg
Gallery Djursland, Ryomgård
Housing Company Headquarters, Copenhagen
Aarhus Council Town Hall
Kunst for alle, Aarhus
2011
Recommended, Aarhus
Kunst for alle, Øksnehallen Copenhagen
KunstCentrum, Silkeborg
Gallery Knud Grothe, Charlottenlund
Gallery Omegalfa, Saltum
Djurslands Gallery, Ryomgård
Kunst for alle, Aarhus
Constantia 2, Aarhus
Nordjysk El handel, Aalborg
2010
VIA University College, Aarhus
Gallery Mernild, Herning
Kunst for alle, Øksnehallen Copenhagen
Aalborg Congress Centre – Art on the First Floor
Paraplyen:
V. Guldmann A/S Pressalit Danisco A/S
AAK Aarhus Karlshamn Danmark A/S IBM Risskov
2009
2008
2007
2006
Peter Sabroe Seminar
Hellerup Art Trading Solo Exhibition
Hellerup Art Trading, Copenhagen
Gallery NEW, Amager
KB-Hallen, Copenhagen
Artville Art Fair, Copenhagen
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Phsychiatric Hospital Art Association, Risskov
Garden, Skejby (private exhibition)