Susan Elizabeth Jowsey (born 1962) is a New Zealand multimedia artist and a university lecturer. She works with 3D objects, digital sculpture and animation, 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 The Tylee Cottage Residency is an artist-in-residence programme facilitated by the Sarjeant Gallery in Whanganui, New Zealand. Established in 1986, the scheme began as a partnership between the Sarjeant Gallery, the Wanganui District Council and t ...

at the

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, in the North Island of New Zealand. In 2009, Jowsey, her husband Marcus Williams, and their two children (aged 12 and 10 at the time) won the

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' 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

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Research and publications

* ''The solar familiar : fact and fiction in photography and visual anthropology'' (in The International Journal of the Arts in Society, Volume 2, Number 1, 2007 http://www.arts-journal.com, ISSN 1833-1866); co-authored with Marcus Williams * ''Corrective measures: Actual and virtual interactive narrative'' (unpublished Unitec Research Committee Research Report, 2011) * ''Constructing worlds F4: An artist collective considered'' (in The International Journal of the Arts in Society Volume 6, Issue 3, 2011, http://www.arts-journal.com, ISSN 1833-1866) * ''The Moveable Feast Collective Teach Design'' (Unitec ePress, 2014)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Jowsey, Susan Living people Artists from Auckland 20th-century New Zealand artists 21st-century New Zealand artists New Zealand photographers Academic staff of the Auckland University of Technology 1962 births 21st-century New Zealand women artists 20th-century New Zealand women artists