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  • SUSAN DERGES’ VESSEL 8 AS FRONT COVER FOR MIDDEN WITCH BY FIONA BENSON

    SUSAN DERGES’ VESSEL 8 AS FRONT COVER FOR MIDDEN WITCH BY FIONA BENSON

    29 May 2025
    Created during her residency at the Museum of the History of Science, Oxford, Susan Derges’ Vessel series explores metamorphosis and echoes the chemical process of...
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  • SUSAN DERGES & TOM HUNTER IN LONDON LIVES, PHOTO

    SUSAN DERGES & TOM HUNTER IN LONDON LIVES, PHOTO

    14 – 18 May 2025 29 May 2025
    Susan Derges and Tom Hunter are included in London Lives at Somerset House. The exhibition is a collaboration with Photo London 2025 to celebrate the...
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  • Susan Derges: Dartmoor: A Radical Landscape at RAMM

    Susan Derges: Dartmoor: A Radical Landscape at RAMM

    19 October 2024 – 23 February 2025 18 October 2024
    Dartmoor: A Radical Landscape is a contemporary art exhibition exploring Dartmoor’s evocative landscape through photography, film and Land Art. Central to the exhibition are large-scale,...
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  • SQUARING THE CIRCLES OF CONFUSION: DALKEITHPHOTO

    SQUARING THE CIRCLES OF CONFUSION: DALKEITHPHOTO

    8 September - 6 October 2024 4 September 2024
    Takashi Arai, Céline Bodin, Susan Derges and Tom Hunter are included in DalkeithPhoto, set within Dalkeith Palace just a few miles outside Edinburgh, from 8...
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  • Susan Derges’ work “The Observer and the Observed” in "Suppose You Are Not" at Arter, Istanbul

    Susan Derges’ work “The Observer and the Observed” in "Suppose You Are Not" at Arter, Istanbul

    19 JANUARY - 29 DECEMBER 2024 11 January 2024
    Susan Derges’ work “The Observer and the Observed No. 16” will be included in the group exhibition Suppose You Are Not, from the Ömer Koç...
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  • SUSAN DERGES: MANY MOONS, HESTERCOMBE GALLERY, TAUNTON

    SUSAN DERGES: MANY MOONS, HESTERCOMBE GALLERY, TAUNTON

    22 July - 22 October 21 July 2023
    Showing across all eight spaces at Hestercombe Gallery., Many Moons reflects on thirty years of Susan Derges' work, whilst also drawing on objects and artworks...
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  • THE SIR MARK FEHRS HAUKOHL COLLECTION OF EUROPEAN WOMEN PHOTOGRAPHERS 2000 - 2020

    THE SIR MARK FEHRS HAUKOHL COLLECTION OF EUROPEAN WOMEN PHOTOGRAPHERS 2000 - 2020

    13 April 2023
    This is the first publication to comprehensively explore art collector and philanthropist Sir Mark Fehrs Haukohl’s collection of work by European women photographers. One of...
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  • SQUARING THE CIRCLES: SCARBOROUGH ART GALLERY

    SQUARING THE CIRCLES: SCARBOROUGH ART GALLERY

    4 March - 1 May 2023 9 March 2023
    Pictorialism was photography’s dominant art form from the mid 19th Century until the early 20th Century. It focused on the beauty of subject matter, the...
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  • SQUARING THE CIRCLES OF CONFUSION: NEO PICTORIALISM IN THE 21ST CENTURY, ROYAL PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY GALLERY, BRISTOL

    SQUARING THE CIRCLES OF CONFUSION: NEO PICTORIALISM IN THE 21ST CENTURY, ROYAL PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY GALLERY, BRISTOL

    9 September - 6 November 2022 8 September 2022
    Pictorialism was photography’s dominant art form from the mid 19th Century until the early 20th Century. It focused on the beauty of subject matter, the...
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  • SUSAN DERGES: Artful Craft, MAKE Southwest

    SUSAN DERGES: Artful Craft, MAKE Southwest

    2 April - 2 July 2022 1 April 2022
    Susan Derges's 'Seed Constellation, 2020' is included in the exhibtion Artful Craft, MAKE Southwest. Peter Randall-Page RA has curated this exhibition which addresses the labels,...
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  • SUSAN DERGES: THE TIME IS RIGHT, JEDDAH PHOTO

    SUSAN DERGES: THE TIME IS RIGHT, JEDDAH PHOTO

    Opens 16 February 2022 5 February 2022
    THE TIME IS RIGHT Laura El Tantawy. Sarah Naim. Mohammed Alfaraj. Tom Lovelace. Lorenzo Vitturi. Yan Wang Preston. Susan Derges. Marwah Al Mugait. Zahara al...
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  • SUSAN DERGES, SANDRA KANTANEN, BETTINA VON ZWEHL: LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART

    SUSAN DERGES, SANDRA KANTANEN, BETTINA VON ZWEHL: LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART

    14 November 2021 – 13 February 2022 20 November 2021
    IN THE NOW: GENDER AND NATION IN EUROPE, SELECTIONS FROM THE SIR MARK FEHRS HAUKOHL PHOTOGRAPHY COLLECTION. In the Now explores and challenges traditional categories...
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  • SUSAN DERGES: SHADOWS AND LIGHT, SOUTHAMPTON CITY ART GALLERY

    SUSAN DERGES: SHADOWS AND LIGHT, SOUTHAMPTON CITY ART GALLERY

    24 October 2020 - 23 January 2021 27 November 2020
    Susan Derges' work Sun in Virgo is currently on view in the exhibition Shadows and Light at Southampton City Art Gallery. This exhibition forms part...
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  • Squaring the Circles of Confusion

    Squaring the Circles of Confusion

    Takashi Arai, Celine Bodin, Susan Derges, Tom Hunter 15 September 2020
    A new book accompanying the upcoming exhibition Squaring the Circles of Confusion: Neo-Pictorialism in the 21st century at The Royal Photographic Society Bristol and featuring...
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  • SUSAN DERGES: TIME PRESENT - PHOTOGRAPHY FROM THE DEUTSCHE BANK COLLECTION AT PALAIS POPULAIRE, BERLIN

    SUSAN DERGES: TIME PRESENT - PHOTOGRAPHY FROM THE DEUTSCHE BANK COLLECTION AT PALAIS POPULAIRE, BERLIN

    10 June 2020 - 8 February 2021 12 June 2020
    Time Present is an exhibition devoted to international photography from the Deutsche Bank Collection and examines how artists deal with basic questions of photography: What...
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  • SUSAN DERGES: ROYAL MUSEUMS GREENWICH ACQUISITION

    SUSAN DERGES: ROYAL MUSEUMS GREENWICH ACQUISITION

    22 May 2020
    Acquired with support from the National Heritage Fund as part of the Armada Portrait Project. In 2016 the iconic Armada Portrait of Queen Elizabeth I,...
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  • SUSAN DERGES: SEA GARDEN AT ROYAL ALBERT MEMORIAL MUSEUM & ART GALLERY, EXETER

    SUSAN DERGES: SEA GARDEN AT ROYAL ALBERT MEMORIAL MUSEUM & ART GALLERY, EXETER

    16 NOVEMBER 2019 – 26 JANUARY 2020 16 November 2019
    This vibrant and intriguing contemporary art exhibition explores the female-gendered relationship with the sea and seaweed. The exhibition brings together RAMM's first South West Commission,...
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  • MOONLIGHT AT HASSELBLAD FOUNDATION, GOTHENBURG: GROUP EXHIBITION WITH WORKS BY CHAN-HYO BAE, SUSAN DERGES, JORMA PURANEN

    MOONLIGHT AT HASSELBLAD FOUNDATION, GOTHENBURG: GROUP EXHIBITION WITH WORKS BY CHAN-HYO BAE, SUSAN DERGES, JORMA PURANEN

    25 MAY – 22 SEPTEMBER, 2019 25 May 2019
    The Moon can be portrayed as a witness to earthly events, as a companion, as a world or as a territory to be colonized, conquered....
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  • SUSAN DERGES: MORTAL MOON AT THE QUEEN'S HOUSE, GREENWICH

    SUSAN DERGES: MORTAL MOON AT THE QUEEN'S HOUSE, GREENWICH

    20 MARCH 2019 - JANUARY 2020 20 March 2019
    Inspired by the Armada Portrait of Queen Elizabeth I, a new commission from Susan Derges comes to the Queen’s House, Greenwich. Using both analogue and...
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  • SUSAN DERGES: CRIMINAL ORNAMENTATION AT ROYAL ALBERT MEMORIAL MUSEUM, EXETER

    SUSAN DERGES: CRIMINAL ORNAMENTATION AT ROYAL ALBERT MEMORIAL MUSEUM, EXETER

    19 JANUARY - 17 MARCH 2019 19 January 2019
    For the exhibition Criminal Ornamentation Yinka Shonibare MBE has selected from the Arts Council Collection works that refuse to be confined. Showing nearly 100 works...
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  • SUSAN DERGES NOMINATED AS ONE OF HUNDRED HEROINES OF PHOTOGRAPHY BY ROYAL PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY

    SUSAN DERGES NOMINATED AS ONE OF HUNDRED HEROINES OF PHOTOGRAPHY BY ROYAL PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY

    20 December 2018
    The heroines will be part of a landmark exhibition and receive a specially minted medal – the Margaret F. Harker Medal, Harker being the Society’s...
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