Susan Dunkerley Maguire creates photographic still-lifes using her window as the frame. Her images are compilations of items gathered from nature combined with common domestic items associated with woman’s work: i.e. a pair of scissors, a broken piece of china, a fork, a female figurine. Dunkerley relies solely on whatever natural lights is available which illuminates the scene from behind. Plucked from their origins, the objects become tiny characters come to life, evoking a richness of a world in existence between the reality of any object and the photograph that documents it.
Susan lives in Superior, WI. She has had solo exhibitions throughout the US, including a show in 2004 at The Print Center. Her work was included in the New York/Paris Print Exchange and has been seen in shows in the Brooklyn Museum of Art, NY; Muséum Nationale d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris; Fotogalerie Wien, Vienna; and Amerika Haus, Munich as well as many other galleries and museums. Her work can be found in the collections of The Museum of Fine Art, Houston; Brooklyn Museum of Art and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.