Sue Kneebone


Dr Sue Kneebone is an Adelaide-based artist and arts educator who lectures at Adelaide Central School of Art.

Biography

Sue Kneebone has a Bachelor of Fine Art and a Masters in Fine Arts from Victorian College of the Arts as well as a PhD from the University of South Australia. She features in Episode 2 of Hannah Gadsby’s three-part series on Australian art, Oz. She has held exhibitions in Australia and the Republic of Ireland.

Artistic style and subject

Kneebone began as a ceramicist but expanded her art practice to include photomontage and other mixed media. Through her ceramics, photomontages and assemblages, she explores questions of cultural identity through her own family history, as well as the impact of empire on the Australian landscape. She has been described as combining “a hypnotic storyteller with the backbone of an archaeologist”.

Awards/Prizes/Residencies

Kneebone was the South Australian recipient of the Qantas Foundation Contemporary Art Travel Award in 2011.

Collections

Kneebone's works are held in the collection of .