Susan Charlton
photo: Sophie Alstergren
Susan Charlton is a writer and curator who draws upon her decades-long practice in archives and museums to experiment in memoir, installation, product-artefacts and performance.
Susan was the 2020 ARTWORKS Writer in Residence, presented by Guildhouse and the City of Adelaide, where she created a poetic memoir project involving gunshots and pearls, scars and archives, memory and hallucinations, which premiered at Adelaide Town Hall and salon readings in Sydney.
Susan's curatorial projects include Unity! Strength! Justice! for NSW Teachers Federation, Museum of Love & Protest for Sydney Mardi Gras, three Feminism & Film programs for Sydney Film Festival, and This Woman is Not a Car: Margaret Dodd at The Cross Art Projects in Sydney and ACE Open in Adelaide. Susan was commissioned by the NGA to write the catalogue entry about Margaret Dodd for the Know My Name exhibition honouring Australian women artists.
Previously Susan worked as Creative Producer at NSW State Archives & Records, where she produced the groundbreaking Vital Signs magazine and curated exhibitions based on the archive's collection, including [art meets archive], Sydney: Resort of Thieves, In the Realm of the Censors, and collaborated on the In Living Memory exhibition of photographs from the NSW Aborigines Welfare Board.
Susan Charlton writes about Deidre But-Husaim in Neoteric 2022.