Susie Allen is an artist, curator and teacher. She studied at the Royal College of Art and later became the Curator of its Painting Collection.

In 1996 she set up London based curating practise ArtWise with Penny Roberts and has curated many exhibitions including The British Art Show in Vienna in 1984, Exhibition Road: Painters from the Royal College of Art, the centenary exhibition for the RCA and 3 Ways, a touring exhibition for the British Council. She has also run contemporary art projects for the National Art Collection Fund, Glasgow Museums, Pallant House Gallery, Wedgwood, Deloitte & Touche and Midland Bank.

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Glossary

  • Contemporary

    Existing or coming into being at the same period; of today or of the present. The term that designates art being made today.

  • Curator

    A person who creates exhibitions or who is employed to look after and research museum objects.

  • Painting

    Work of art made with paint on a surface. Often the surface, also called a support, is a tightly stretched piece of canvas, paper or a wooden panel. Painting involves a wide range of techniques and materials, along with the artist's intellectual concerns effecting the content of a work.

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