Susan Jowsey


Susan Elizabeth Jowsey is a New Zealand multimedia artist and a university lecturer. She works with perfumery, found materials, 3D objects, installation, moving image and photography.
In 1996, Jowsey won the Visa Gold Art Award. In 2001, she was a joint holder of the Tylee Cottage Residency at the Sarjeant Gallery in Whanganui, in the North Island of New Zealand. In 2009, Jowsey, her husband Marcus Williams, and their two children won the Wallace Art Awards' paramount award with a photographic piece they had collaborated on under the name "F4 Collective". As part of the prize, the family spent six months at the International Studio and Curatorial Programme in New York. It was the first time in the Wallace Art Awards' history that a photographic piece had won the Paramount Award, and also the first time a collective had won.
In 2014 the F4 Collective produced a work for the Hastings City Art Gallery in Hastings.

Research and publications

The solar familiar : fact and fiction in photography and visual anthropology ; co-authored with Marcus WilliamsCorrective measures: Actual and virtual interactive narrative Constructing worlds F4: An artist collective considered