Art on a Postcard International Women’s Day Auction - Curated by AOAP

About 

Suzanne Moxhay (b.1976, Essex) lives and works in London. After completing a BA Hons in Painting at Chelsea College of Art she went on to The Royal Academy Schools where she graduated with a Post Graduate Diploma in Fine Art in 2007.  

Drawing from an archive of collected material, Moxhay creates intricate and complex photomontage images. Her method derives in part from the early filmmaking technique of matte painting, where backdrops were painted on sheets of glass and integrated by the camera with the live-action on set. She builds up the image in her studio using cutout fragments of source material, which she makes into small stage sets on glass panels. She then re-photographs the sets and manipulates the images digitally, an act of reprocessing which takes them further away from their original context and broadens the narrative potential. Her source material is drawn from an archive of collected imagery, from mid twentieth-century books and magazines to contemporary found photographs as well as her own photographs and paintings. She works intuitively with the material, finding points of connection between details, either through shared subject matter or formal considerations such as following the path of light from one image through another to create spaces, which at first may appear real but on closer inspection begin to dissolve. She plays with anomalies – of texture, surface, depth, space, scale, movement and architecture – to involve the viewer in the construction of the image, and to make them question it. In the finished work there is often an uneasy sense of a space that does not quite fit together - either formally or conceptually, but possesses a reality of its own. One which we are unable to pinpoint as factual or fictitious.    

Moxhay has exhibited widely since 2002, both nationally and internationally, and her work is held in many significant public and private collections, including the University of the Arts Collection, The Royal Academy of Arts, The Cooper Union New York, the FSC, the Lodeveans Collection and Oxford University.  She has featured in numerous publications including The Guardian, The FT, A-N Magazine and Art World Magazine, and has been profiled and interviewed on the BBC Culture Show.  

Exhibitions include ‘GSK Contemporary: Earth Art of a Changing World’ and 'Constructed Landscapes' at the Royal Academy of Arts, ‘Saatchi’s New Sensations/ The Future Can Wait’ at Victoria House, London and 'Human Made Things' at Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth. Her animation work has been shown as part of the programme ‘Do Billboards Dream of Electric Screens?’ on BBC public screens in cities across the UK and she has had two prints commissioned by the Royal Academy of Arts. She recently had a solo exhibition in Milan and was nominated for the prestigious ‘BNL Paribas Award’ at the MIA Art Fair, Milan. 

Education 

2004–2007 

Post-graduate Diploma in Fine Art, Royal Academy Schools 

2001–2004 

BA (hons) in Fine Art, Chelsea College of Art 

Select Exhibitions/Awards 

Solo Exhibitions 

2022 

Nocturama 

Wilder Gallery, London 

Selected Works 

Festival Panoramic. Barcelona, Spain 

2020 

Tableaux Vivants 

Galerie G. La Garde, Provence, France 

2019 

Conservatory 

James Freeman Gallery, London  

Selected Group Exhibitions 

2023 

Unreal 

James Freeman Gallery, London. 

2022 

Pageant 

The Violet Hour at Abbott and Holder, London   

Escape Routes 

Oliver Projects, London 

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