Sue Wearne

Sue’s interest in the natural world emerged from a young age growing up in an old rivervalley at the base of the Strzelecki Ranges. Living amidst rich forests of gumtrees and thicketed babbling creeks fuelled Sue’s curiosity for pattern, line and colour. Her breathtaking adventures across mountainous destinations around the world often creep into her works, also, fuelling a longing to venture back when the time is right and ready. Sue’s work explores voyeurism and being present in landscape through its seasonal shifts. Her work encompasses a variety of methods in art making and can be intensely intuitive at times. Her renderings of semi abstracted landscapes are highly patterned, playful and saturated in moody opaques - often speaking to the transitory and ephemeral nature of the environment that surrounds her.

Sue Wearne is a visual artist who dabbles in drawing, painting, printmaking and collage. Sue graduated her Fine Art degree at R.M.I.T University in Melbourne in 2008 and later completed a Post Graduate Diploma in Teaching (Secondary, Visual Arts) in 2009. After ten years of work and study in Melbourne, Sue decided to move back to Gippsland, now residing in the seaside village of Inverloch along the Bass Coast/Bunurong region of Victoria - a wildly beautiful and rugged landscape to inspire her new creative pursuits. Sue now works full-time educating secondary arts and design students in a small secondary school nestled in the luscious rolling hills of South Gippsland.