Susan Purdy received her MA in Fine Art from Monash University in 1996. Since then she has held several solo and group exhibitions around Australia. She has been awarded four development grants for her work including a three month residency at the Australia Council Studio in Taiwan in 2001 and a grant by Arts Victoria in 2002 which resulted in an unique collaboration between Purdy and Terry Smyth, the curator of plants in the Southern Chinese Collection at the Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne. Her most recent solo exhibition “New Branches on an Old Tree” was formulated through this collaboration. Purdy’s work has been collected by private and public institutions and is among recent acquisitions of the National Gallery of Victoria and the National Gallery of Australia. Susan Purdy currently lectures at Monash University.
