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Conway is a British artist whose work involves a liaison between
textiles and fine art. Travelling widely and having lived in Borneo, the
United States, India and Thailand, she has been open to a wide range of
technical, stylistic and cultural influences which have encouraged her
to adopt a particularly rich and experimental approach to her art.
Her
interests range from Lanna Buddhist murals and Thai weavings to stained
abstract American paintings of the Fifties and Sixties, especially those
of Helen Frankenthaler. Her predominant theme is landscape, which acts
as a compositional structure for her colour, creating the luminosity of
stained glass. Landscape also expresses her sense of environment, the
changing times of day and seasons, and the inherent cultures and life
cycles which are inextricably bound up with them.
While in India she worked for a woman's development agency in
Bihar.
Susan Conway
Research Associate
School of Oriental and African Studies
London
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