Sue Kneebone
Sue Kneebone is an Adelaide-based artist and arts educator who lectures at Adelaide Central School of Art.
Biography
Sue Kneebone was born in 1963. She has a Bachelor of Fine Art and a Masters in Fine Arts from Victorian College of the Arts as well as a PhD from the University of South Australia.She has held exhibitions in Australia and the Republic of Ireland, and in 2014 featured in Episode 2 of Hannah Gadsby's three-part series on Australian art, Oz.
Work
Kneebone began as a ceramicist but expanded her art practice to include photomontage and other mixed media. Through her ceramics, photomontages and assemblages, she explores questions of cultural identity through her own family history, as well as the impact of empire on the Australian landscape. She has been described as combining “a hypnotic storyteller with the backbone of an archaeologist”.She uses text in her work to create word art, which featured in a 2018 exhibition of word art in the Hugo Mitchell Gallery in Adelaide.