Sue Kneebone (born 1963) is an

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-based artist and arts educator who lectures at

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Biography

Sue Kneebone was born in 1963. She has a Bachelor of Fine Art (Hons) (1998) and a Masters in Fine Arts (2000) from

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(2000) as well as a PhD from the

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(2010). She has held exhibitions in Australia and the Republic of Ireland, and in 2014 featured in Episode 2 of

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's three-part series on Australian art, ''Oz''.

Work

Kneebone began as a

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but expanded her art practice to include

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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

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, which featured in a 2018 exhibition of word art in the Hugo Mitchell Gallery in

Awards and recognition

Kneebone was the South Australian recipient of the

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Foundation Contemporary Art Travel Award in 2011.

Collections

Kneebone's works are held in the collection of the

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